"Sometimes we have to do a thing in……" — John le Carre
"Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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