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There are some subjects that ...

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The Cold War was over long be...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

But there is a big difference...

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Remember Graham Green's dictu...

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I don't think that there are ...

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

SIS, the Secret Intelligence ...

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Once you've lived the inside-...

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I was quite able at the insig...

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

'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.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

America has entered one of it...

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Thank heaven, though, one of ...

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in ...

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

We lie to one another every d...

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

When you're my age and you se...

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

A committee is an animal with...

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

During the Cold War, we lived...

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

You have no idea how humiliat...

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I think I'm in the same mood ...

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I've always had difficulties ...

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

But I think the real tension ...

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

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