Wade > Wade's Quotes

“Some fieldmen, and particularly the clever ones, take a perverse pride in not knowing the whole picture. Their art consists in the deft handling of loose ends, and stops there stubbornly.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Odd,” he remarked finally. “One has no sense of shock. Why is that, Peter? You know me. Why is it?”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“But we progress, Your Graces. Inexorably we progress. Albeit at the blind man’s speed, as we tap-tap along in the dark.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“The job of the anti-fascist is to make [fascists] too afraid to act publicly and to act as volunteer targets for their hate and attacks which might keep them from thinking about burning down the mosque in their neighborhood.”
― Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

“In my opinion, one should always make the most out of an awful situation”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“If it makes it any easier, this author can assure you that there will be no other appearances in this story by giant invisible rabbit spirits.”
― J.M.R. Higgs, KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money