Thomas Griesedieck

“A stewardess took a special and personal interest in me. She was a little bigger than they usually are, and a little older than the norm. She was styled for abundant lactation, and her uniform blouse was not. She had a big white smile and she was mildly bovine,”
― John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By

“He looked like a man who could make trouble, a man who looked after his money, a man who was not quite a gentleman.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

“The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. —Robert Conquest’s third law of politics”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber