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People like you should be stop...

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Unfortunately it is the weak w...

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

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I think bankers will always ge...

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

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I happen to write by hand. I d...

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

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There will be no war, but in t...

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Coming home from very lonely p...

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

George Smiley: [quoting an old...

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The only reward for love is th...

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

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The monsters of our childhood ...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

John Le Carre 239 quotes

When the world is destroyed, i...

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

It's easy to forget what intel...

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

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What do you think spies are: p...

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

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For decades to come the spy wo...

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

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The more identities a man has,...

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

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...also took for granted that ...

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

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Let's die of it before we're t...

Let's die of it before we're too old.

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I think the greatest single en...

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

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There is a terrible alienation...

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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It's death, that's what I'm su...

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

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In itself, the practice of dec...

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....