Michael Weston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
-- Michael Weston

#People #Library #Spy
As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.
-- Michael Weston

#Spy #Definitions #Needs
If you wanna make a friend, solve a problem for them. No problem to solve? Create one.
-- Michael Weston

#Problem #Solve #No Problem
To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away.
-- Michael Weston

#Winning #Way #Negotiation

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
Every death is like the burning of a library.
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Michael Weston famous quotes

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