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He Quotes by John le Carre
- 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, to take away…
- A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
- Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
- 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.
- I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me…
- I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary…
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle