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By repetition, each lie becom...

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

My definition of a decent soc...

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

It's easy to forget what inte...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Unfortunately it is the weak ...

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Most of us live in a conditio...

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I think the greatest single e...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Tyranny is like the electric ...

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The pharmaceutical corporatio...

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The things that are done in t...

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I once heard someone say mora...

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Those who are not with Mr. Bu...

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

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The Spy Who Came in from the ...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

And the ideologies trailed af...

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

You can't make war against te...

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Home's where you go when you ...

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

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There is a big difference bet...

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

[My novels] introduce levels ...

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

John Le Carre 239 quotes

America has entered one of it...

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Smiley was soaked to the skin...

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The religious cant that will ...

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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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....