Smileys People
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- Author: John le Carré
- ASIN: B07B4PTCXK
- ISBN: 0241322529
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B4PTCXK
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Highlights
He had been the witness, or victim – or even reluctant prophet – of such spurious cults as lateralism, parallelism, separatism, operational devolution, and now, if he remembered Lacon’s most recent meanderings correctly, of integration. Each new fashion had been hailed as a panacea: ‘Now we shall vanquish, now the machine will work!’ Each had gone out with a whimper, leaving behind it the familiar English muddle, of which, more and more, in retrospect, he saw himself as a lifelong moderator. — location: 2384
‘You remember what we used to say at Sarratt, Toby – about fear being information without the cure? — location: 2543
Smiley did not budge. His eyes as he wrote were almost closed, but he wrote all the time – though God knows what he wrote, said Toby, for George would never have dreamed of consigning anything of even passing confidentiality to a notepad. — location: 5149