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Fools, most linguists. Damn a...

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The world of spying is my gen...

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The monsters of our childhood...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Most people like to read abou...

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Until we have a better relati...

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

In the '60s - and right up to...

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

It is my writing dilemma. The...

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I remain terrified of the cap...

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I want to be like Ford Madox ...

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Novelists are not equipped to...

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I grew up in a completely boo...

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I grew up in a completely boo...

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

More particularly, having a l...

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I don't know whether it's age...

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

If I had to put a name to it,...

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

We have learned in recent yea...

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

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.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

For better or worse, I've bee...

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Writing is like walking in a ...

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I think that where I've watch...

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

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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