“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
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“Nobody cares about someone like me, because they don't know the frustration that you feel when you have the solution, but you do not have the problem.”
― Is This Anything?
― Is This Anything?
“My reading schedule has become butter. I'm being seduced right and left to add books I hadn't even considered. I am a book harlot. A book toting gentleman of the evening.”
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“Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind’s courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.”
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
― Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
“If Moscow rules meant watch your back, London rules meant cover your arse. Moscow rules had been written on the streets, but London rules were devised in the corridors of Westminster, and the short version read: someone always pays. Make sure it isn’t you. Nobody knew that better than Jackson Lamb. And nobody played it better than Di Taverner.”
― Slow Horses
― Slow Horses
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