“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.” ThinkingTryingLyingNightDarknessAirMinesQuietGardenWindowPoliceSpreadRussiaDeliciousGlimpseSpyNightingalesRestful Author:Maxim Gorky
“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.” WorldLooksLongStillsMomentsEyeSpiritLyingTurnsImaginationAttentionGoneLong TimeShadowCornersStrangerPay AttentionInstantExcessTwilightSpy Author:Charles de Lint
“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.” MenWellsMadeFactsLyingEasyHalfLeaderHeroComfortSpeechClaimsMythPostsDictatorSpySubversiveHalf TruthBiographersElected Leaders Book:Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name
“I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?” PeopleTwoIdeasWholeLyingWhole LifeSpySuspiciousPretence Author:Tony Gilroy