#si

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #dead #jones #journalism #knew

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#basically #dissatisfaction #dissatisfied #find #made

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

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

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

#espionage #existence #inside-out #lived #mentality

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

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#genre #i #music #rap #trying

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#any #extent #given #know #man