She had the experience to suffer with discretion.
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.
He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when s...
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of disclosures, each revealing different parts of a mysterious entity. Finally Steed-Asprey, who seemed to be Chairman, removed the last veil, and the truth s...
To dream in doctrines, how tidy!
