"Quotes"

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"I suppose like all home secretaries, God can't resist a file marked "Top secret"."



"Why do you want to piss on life before you've even lived it?"



"Same thing's true with writers. Well, you can say what you like about their personalities because they think, "Oh, I can change, I can improve." But work's different."



"When you don't know the truth, everything freezes and you can't move on."



「If you want me to do nothing, why did you give me the file?

Because I don't want you to be able to say I didn't give you the file.

You gave me the file so that I would do nothing?

I gave you the file so that you would know everything.
(Johnny Worricker: Make sense.)」



"Distrust is a terrible habit. Do you find that?"



"Johnny, it's the 21st century.

How many more times? People keep saying that like it justifies everything, every piece of stupidity."



"Wheather's changing. Feels like the end of an era."



"Will I see you at the funeral?

I'll try.

"Try" as in you will, "Try" as in you won't?"



"I wonder, could we change the station?

Anything you want?

I'd like some jazz.」

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  • Johnny Worricker: I had a feeling that if I asked a favour you were a sort of person who'd come through.

    Nancy Pierpan: You trust me. Why on earth would you trust me?

    Johnny Worricker: Because that's the job. Deciding who to trust. That's what the job is.

    Johnny Worricker: Also, you told your father that I work for the Home Office.

    Nancy Pierpan: I lied.

    Johnny Worricker: Yeah.

    Nancy Pierpan: You trust me because I lied.

  • Johnny Worricker: The purpose of intelligence is to find the truth, not to confirm what we already believe. We're meant to look for what's there, not for what we want to be there.

    Rollo Maverley: Come on, Johnny! Once they wanted communists, we gave them communists. Now they want Arabs, we give them Arabs. They decide what they're looking for, we find it for them.

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