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"You are wrong", he told her distractedly. "I morn the dead sicerely, and Vladimir at this moment deeply. It's loving the living which is sometimes the problem."

"For god's sake Morn!", Ann had flung at Smiley once,infuriated by his apparent composure after yet another friend had died. "If you won't grieve for the dead, how can you love the living?"
Sitting on the bench pondering his next step, Smiley now transmitted to her the answer he had failed to find at the time.

She wrecked her brain for someone she could trust; who would not condone and not condemn; who would see round the corners of the route she had embarked upon

You didn't have to want to, but you had to do it.

"Tomorrow your job is to change the world in to a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there."
Granny Weatherwax

"Witches are all equal, We don't have things like head witches. That's quite against the spirit of witchcraft."
"Oh, I see." said Tiffany.
"Besides," Miss Level added, "Misstress Weatherwax would never allow that sort of thing."

"What do you do with all that food?"
"Store it." said Miss Level.
"But you -"
"I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people."

The didn't theach yoy how to do it. They taught you how to know what you were doing.

"You give me the galloping creeps, to be honest. I can't do with trustworthy frases round me. Sorry darling, knwo what I mean?"

"Wives?", she asked.
"Non active", as if wives were vulcanoes which in Jerry's world they had been.

In that respect secret services and their customers are like anyone else, I'm afraid. They value most what costs most. The more you pay for it, the less inclined you are to doubt it.

Sometimes he thought of teh woudn as a memory he couldn't keep down. he tried his damnedest to patch it over and froget is, but even his damnedest wasn't always enough.

(het mooie is dat het hier om een fysieke wond, gaat en dat Carré geen verwijzing maakt naar mentale wonden, maar dat aan de leer over laat.)

"And artist is a bloke who can hol d two fundamentally opposing views and stil function: who dreamed that one up?"
"Scott Fitzgerald", Smiley replied.

"And like everyone who's had enough said Control asl Alleline noisily left the room, ḧe wants more".

Coercion is just another word for doing what you want; or for not doing what you are afraid of.

"I'm afraid you'll have to ask a women that question", said Smiley, wondering again where Imingham was.

(refers to page 28: One letter from the bank regarding al local cahsing facility in favour of the Lady Ann Smiley at a branch of the Mildand Bank in Immingham. And what the devil, he demanded of this document, are they doing in Immingham? Who ever had a love afair in Immingham? Where wás Immingham?