Dishonourable Quotes by John le Carre

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• Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
• A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
• It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…
• Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public…
• But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's…
• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
• History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in…
• A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
• A committee is an animal with four back legs.
• The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how…
• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…
• Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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