"Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes."

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John le Carre

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“You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.”
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”
“The long historian of my country's woes.”
“To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal”

Source : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”
“The more liberty you give away the more you will have.”
“What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”
“Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.”

Source : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.86, Shambhala Publications
“In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.”

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