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svgurl ([personal profile] svgurl) wrote2023-04-26 02:49 pm

lands of magic 'inspiration' post

This is for the [community profile] lands_of_magic 'inspiration challenge' - my choice for the second theme is 'spies & secret agents'.

Quotes:

“Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.” – David Leitch

“I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.” – Gary Oldman

“Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually.”― Ally Carter

“Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.” – Sun Tzu

“The life of spies is to know, not be known.” – George Herbert

“For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.” – Malcolm Nance

“Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.” – Matt Nix

“From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it’s a big bureaucratic place. Think ‘post office with spies.” – Barry Eisler

“Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.” – Michael Weston

“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.” – John le Carre

Prompts:

undercover * disguise * lies * suspect * briefcase * getaway * caught * suspicion * tracker * gadgets * hacking * counter intelligence * assassin * interrogation * impersonation *


Songs:

Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers

Nobody Does it Better by Carly Simon

Spies by Tori Amos

Spies Like Us by Paul McCartney

Come Spy With Me by Smokey Robinson

The Spy by The Doors

Spies by Coldplay

Spy by They Might Be Giants

The Last of the Secret Agents by Nancy Sinatra

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