"The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky……" — John le Carre
"The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London."
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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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More Dusky Quotes
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
— John Milton
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
— Torquato Tasso
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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the…
— Stephen Charnock
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a…
— William Wordsworth
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I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love…
— Bipasha Basu
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside…
— Nick Flynn
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Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant…
— Robert Montgomery
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Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky…
— Langston Hughes
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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing…
— Henry James
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Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
— Oscar Wilde
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