John le Carré on unhappy childhoods

Quote of the day: “As to his loyalty to his country Barley saw it only as a question of which England he chose to serve.”

Quote of the day: “Anger was not so much a new beginning as a new movement in the symphony of political disappointment and social disaffection that had begun several years previous…

Quote of the day: “I want to make people feel, to give them lessons in feeling.”

Quote of the day: “Every good bookseller is a multiple personality, containing all the extremes of human feeling.”