“I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength.”
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
“Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion - so he never lacked work or the appearance of importance.”
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
“Like many of those who lived through the Second World War, he had witnessed the horrifying consequences of overly myopic nationalism – a sentiment he partially blamed on nostalgic tendencies among people who had never quite managed to wrest themselves from the fantasies of youth and the family. Fascism, for him, was an unintended consequence of societies that were resistant to change.”
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
“Davis was one of the first social scientists to theorize nostalgia. He argued that nostalgia made false use of the past. It is a reconstruction of events that can never offer a perfect facsimile. As a result, nostalgia tells us more about the present, its moods and anxieties, than about past realities.”
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
“At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you can't escape”
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
― The Peacock and the Sparrow
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