"Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion." — John le Carre

"Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion."

— John le Carre

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126 Quotes by John le Carre

John le Carre has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner

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