Kendall Russell

“one part of Smiley broke into open revolt against the other. The wave of angry doubt that had swept over him in Lacon’s garden, and that ever since had pulled against his progress like a worrying tide, drove him now on to the rocks of despair, and then to mutiny:”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“Sitting is an eloquent business; any actor will tell you that. We sit according to our natures. We sprawl and straddle, we rest like boxers between rounds, we fidget, perch, cross and uncross our legs, lose patience, lose endurance.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“Bill had a feeling he could not describe that Jim lived so precariously on the world’s surface that he might at any time fall off it into a void; he feared that Jim was like himself, without a natural gravity to hold him on.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery?”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy