"To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is……" — John le Carre
"To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge."
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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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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 Another Language Quotes
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
— Balthus
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about…
— Flora Lewis
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Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language
— Sophie Marceau
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn…
— Juliet Stevenson
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
— Gates McFadden
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who…
— Shirley Hazzard
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and…
— Richard Bach
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Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To speak another language is to have another soul
— Charlemagne
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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