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Very Quotes by John le Carre
- More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
- I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available…
- People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself…
- Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and…
- 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…
- Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
- If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got…
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