"People are very secretive - secret even from…" — John le Carre

"People are very secretive - secret even from themselves."

— John le Carre

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126 Quotes by John le Carre

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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which…
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry,…
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its…
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you…
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern…
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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