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Slough House
Mick Herron
Top 10 Best Quotes
“regard him as a cross between a game show host and a cartoon yeti”
“Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky bit.”
“History has an open-door policy. Any fool can walk right in”
“We’re Slough House’, he said. Then added, ‘Hasta la vista baby,’ before following the others down the stairs”
“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”
“The paths to power of current world leaders—paths including conspiracy to assault, knee-jerk racism, indeterminate fecundity and cheating at golf—were so askew from the traditional routes that only an idiot would have dared forecast future developments.”
“If everyone succeeded, nobody did”
“Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe.”
“But if there's one thing we should have learned by now, it's that once you've incited the mob, you can't turn it off again. And there's never been a mob that didn't end up eating itself.”
“But I came to recognise that there will always be those who will do everything in their power to maintain the status quo, even when that so obviously favours such a small section of society.”
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