Sublime

he refused to break the clause in his trust deed that stipulated that no benefactor should be privy to the investments of the family trust.

“If we must offend one side,” Chamberlain told his Cabinet, “let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.”

Other countries hire terrorists, we hire terrorist states, we’re a big, powerful country.

‘These long silences make me nervous, they really do. I never know what you’re thinking.’ Helen smiled grimly into the telephone. ‘You might ask me some time.’ ‘I’m afraid you’d answer,’ Verna said with a sharp little laugh.

Mr Brooke himself was not in a position to be quickly conscious of anything except a general slipping away of ideas within himself: he had even a little singing in the ears, and he was the only person who had not yet taken distinct account of the echo or discerned the image of himself. Few things hold the perceptions more thoroughly captive than an

He talked the way people on television talked, and he moved the way people on television moved. There was always a layer of glass between us. I was on this side, and he was on that side. “As

Office work becomes an empty parody of real human social life. A dried-up husk of having to pretend to laugh, having to pretend to care, engage in small talk and business talk indefinitely. Futures postponed; emails answered.