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Our Game QUOTES

1 " A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

2 " all life has taught me to leave dangerous things unsaid. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

3 " It’s my innocence,” he explains. “Your what?” He reiterates, very precisely. “Our problem, Timbo, is my purblind, incurable, omnivorous innocence. I can’t leave life alone. I love it. Its fictions and its facts. I love everybody, all the time. Best of all I love whoever I was speaking to last.” “And the corollary to that?” “And the corollary to that is that you’ve got to be jolly careful what you ask of me. Because I’ll do it. You’re such an eloquent swine. Such a brick. Got to be sparing, follow me? Ration yourself. Don’t take all of me all the time. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

4 " When people panic, he said, they panic upward. They make for lifts, escalators, stairs, any way to go up, not down. By the time the boys go in, anyone who is not too petrified to move is in the attic. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

5 " That's what happens with undergraduate friendships. What was charming twenty-five years ago becomes a pest. You grow up. Your friends don't. You adjust. They stay the same. They become old kids, then they become bores. That's when you switch off. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

6 " I dare not think what seditious opinions are swaying his moody, impressionable nature, filling the vacuum of his constant boredom. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

7 " There are two golden rules to being interrogated, and I had already flouted both of them. "

― John le Carré , Our Game

8 " There are two golden rules to being interrogated, and I had already flouted both of them. The first is never volunteer extraneous detail. The second is never tell a direct lie unless you are able to stick it out to the bitter end. "

― John le Carré , Our Game