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From Quotes by John le Carre
- A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
- I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
- Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene,…
- The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it…
- How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks…
- People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.
- 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…
- George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us…
- Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
- I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian…
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