Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 33)
“I got nothing. Even the spies I’m spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.”
Source: Shadow's Claim
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He turned to Lord Peter with a sudden realization. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I didn’t mean to imply—”
”That’s all right, Your Highness,” Lord Peter said. “It’s a common reaction. Their spies are dirty, filthy scum, not fit to wipe your boots on, while our spies are noble gentlemen doing dangerous work for the love of King and Country. Would that it were so, Your Highness, but I’m afraid that sometimes the desired image is at fault—in both directions.”
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 33)
Jasper Johns
(1930) American artist
Watchman. Somewhere here, there is the question of "seeing clearly". Seeing what? According to what?
Book A (sketchbook), c 1965: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 60
1960s
“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”
Ally Carter
(1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
“We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.”
Gena Showalter
(1975) American writer
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.”
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“To write for others,’ she thought, ‘it seems one must be a spy—or a teller of tales.”
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 11, “Of Family Gatherings, Grammatology, More Models, and More Mysteries” (p. 313)
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Source: da Like a Rolling Stone, n.° 1
Context: Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.