I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When it comes to recruiting people for the secret world, what the recruiters are looking for is pretty much what I had.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share
For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John le Carre Copy Share
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carre Copy Share
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