"I began writing when I was still in……" — John le Carre
"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, you used another name."
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John le Carre
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126 Quotes by John le Carre
John le Carre has 126 quotes on this site.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which…
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry,…
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its…
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern…
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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More Another Name Quotes
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
— William Ellery Channing
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To her, the name of father was another name for love.
— Fanny Fern
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the…
— Ramana Maharshi
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I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your…
— Rajneesh
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
— Isaac Newton
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what…
— Byron Katie
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It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is…
— Rajneesh
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Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he…
— Rajneesh
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You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or…
— Ramana Maharshi
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