"Let's die of it before we're too old." — John le Carre
"Let's die of it before we're too old."
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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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