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Only Quotes by John le Carre
- Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
- The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
- There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
- I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've…
- Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was…
- ...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
- The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
- I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That…
- Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.
- If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
- Betrayal can only happen if you love
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