- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
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Photoblog: The Most Insubstantial Man In The Room
SPOILERS. George Smiley (Gary Oldman) wins the battle of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) in part by being the most recessive, closed-off man among a raft of closed-off people. Self-abnegation is a desirable quality in a John le … Continue reading
