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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn't matter.Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence,natural,even beneficent even a gift,the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall,"water within water," those old stories. ↗

— Pattiann Rogers

#death

Did you know hemp is a natural fiber' ↗

— Tia Carrere

#fiber #hemp #know #natural #you

If you've got a talent, protect it. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#got #protect #talent #you

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#away #been #blow #conservative #experience

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#bring #child #greatest #injustice #into

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#always #cole #considered #friend #had

Old people are often impatient, but for what? ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#often #old #old people #people