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John Le Carre Quotes
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Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage (John Le Carre Quotes)
He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year (John Le Carre Quotes)
Think I'll just buff up the silver, he announced, loud enough for her to hear and do something about him if she wanted (John Le Carre Quotes)
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch (John Le Carre Quotes)
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways (John Le Carre Quotes)
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation (John Le Carre Quotes)
There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur (John Le Carre Quotes)
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him (John Le Carre Quotes)
It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment (John Le Carre Quotes)
A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere (John Le Carre Quotes)
Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism... when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom? (John Le Carre Quotes)
If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself (John Le Carre Quotes)
Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London (John Le Carre Quotes)
Why and earth should an unshaven young man in a track suit be carrying a basket of oranges and yesterday's newspaper? The whole boat must of noticed him! (John Le Carre Quotes)
She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life (John Le Carre Quotes)
Perhaps we didn't win anyway. (the Cold War) Perhaps they just lost. Or perhaps, without the bonds of ideological conflict to restrain us any more, our troubles are just beginning (John Le Carre Quotes)
It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for (John Le Carre Quotes)
He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on and the face you spoke from at that moment (John Le Carre Quotes)
he looks like a mixture of Humpty Dumpty and a Cornish elf - very short and broad - and I don't think he's anyone's fool (John Le Carre Quotes)
They loved each other and believed they loved mankind, they fought each other and believed they fought the world (John Le Carre Quotes)
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit (John Le Carre Quotes)
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats (John Le Carre Quotes)
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire (John Le Carre Quotes)
The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind (John Le Carre Quotes)
I mean, you can’t be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government’s policy is benevolent, can you now? (John Le Carre Quotes)
I’ve got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I’d give this one a twang (John Le Carre Quotes)
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started (John Le Carre Quotes)
And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they’ve had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves (John Le Carre Quotes)
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water (John Le Carre Quotes)
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing (John Le Carre Quotes)