“Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.”
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“I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.”
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“...an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political.”
― The Islanders
― The Islanders
“We’re going on an adventure,”
― Children of Ruin
― Children of Ruin
“None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.”
― The Islanders
― The Islanders
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