"The Cold War was over long before it……" — John le Carre

"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."

— 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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More Cold Quotes

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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested… — Russell Baker
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when… — Russell Baker
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. — George Ade
I love cold, rainy weather. — Catherine Bell
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is… — Hilaire Belloc
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems… — Adele
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,… — John Desmond Bernal
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. — John Betjeman

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