"Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world."

-- C.J. Sansom

#Giving Quotes #Spy Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.”
“Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.”
“Out here, it's just you and the ball.”

Source : "Go Set a Watchman: first chapter released - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Matthew Weaver, Lanre Bakare, Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.
“Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectivelyâ€”intuitivelyâ€”the camera can write poetry.”
“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?”
“Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.”
“But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.”

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