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- My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence.…
- Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
- I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
- We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,…
- Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back…
- You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean…
- Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are…
- All men are born free: just not for long.
- After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
- A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe.…
- What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
- Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
- It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
- If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got…
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle