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You Quotes by John le Carre
- Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
- But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or…
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence.…
- Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
- Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
- Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
- When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels…
- You should have died when I killed you.
- 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…
- You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean…
- 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…
- I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,…
- 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…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide