The Company Quotes

“To the success of our hopeless cause”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“Let there be light! said God, and there was light! Let there be blood! says man, and there’s a sea!”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“Rowing,” Skip Waltz shouted over the din of the New Haven railroad station, “is a great training ground for real life in the sense that you’re taking something that is essentially very simple and perfecting it.” “In”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“Espionage is an effort to find windows into men’s souls.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”),”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“and he was too dense—and, in recent months, too drunk—to follow Mother into what T.S. Eliot had called, in his poem “Gerontion,” “the wilderness of mirrors.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“A coincidence was like a matador’s red cape; if you spotted one, your instinct told you to do more than stand there and paw at the ground in frustration.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“It is a great mistake to reduce your enemy to a demon,” Starik said. “It leaves you at a distinct disadvantage when you are attempting to outwit him.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

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― Robert Littell, The Company