"I think, increasingly, despite what we are being……" — John le Carre
"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 man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes."
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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 Alienation Quotes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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