Call for the Dead
John le Carré
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”
“Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom?”
“But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation.”
“It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf".”
“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”
“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
“society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.”
“Can't you see it's the same? The same guns, the same children dying in the streets? Only the dream has changed, the blood is the same colour. Is that what you want?”
“However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night we sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing.”
“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
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Book Keywords:
composure, novelty, individualism, curiosity, wisdom, dignity, midlife-crisis, human-nature, gossip, philosophy, human-behaviour, contentment
