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John Le Carre Quotes
A committee is an animal with four back legs. - John Le Carre Quotes
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre Quotes
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. - John Le Carre Quotes
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. - John Le Carre Quotes
America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. - John Le Carre Quotes
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it. - John Le Carre Quotes
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. - John Le Carre Quotes
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John Le Carre Quotes
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasnt easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. - John Le Carre Quotes
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. - John Le Carre Quotes
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. - John Le Carre Quotes
For better or worse, Ive been involved in the description of political conflict. - John Le Carre Quotes
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre Quotes
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. - John Le Carre Quotes
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. - John Le Carre Quotes
I dont know whether its age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. - John Le Carre Quotes
I dont think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. - John Le Carre Quotes
I dont think that there are very many good writers who dont live without a sense of tension. If they havent got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. - John Le Carre Quotes
I happen to write by hand. I dont even type. - John Le Carre Quotes
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and Ive sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. Thats the saddest thing of all, because theyre locked up and no one else can make them. - John Le Carre Quotes
I think Im in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when youve seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. - John Le Carre Quotes
I think that where Ive watched a movie go wrong, its usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. - John Le Carre Quotes
Im really a library man, or second-hand book man. - John Le Carre Quotes
Ive always had difficulties with female characters. - John Le Carre Quotes
Ideologies have no heart of their own. Theyre the whores and angels of our striving selves. - John Le Carre Quotes
If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing youve got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level. - John Le Carre Quotes
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. - John Le Carre Quotes
In every war zone that Ive been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. - John Le Carre Quotes
In the last 15 or 20 years, Ive watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids wont sink. I dont know who these people are but theyre little pigs. - John Le Carre Quotes
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. - John Le Carre Quotes
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