By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
John le CarrePeople like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
John le CarreEvery writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John le CarreBut there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
John le CarreOnly Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was familiarity. This how real life is constituted, it said. This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death. This is the everyday we have known since we were born and you Wazungu have not.
John le Carre