“He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“affectation of assuming everything was alive and potentially recalcitrant,” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Did I fuck her? No, I bloody well didn’t. I made mute, frenzied love to her in pitch darkness for six life-altering… — John le Carré 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
