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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

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

I was quite able at the insign...

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

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

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

I mean, I'm in the business of...

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

More particularly, having a la...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

You have no idea how humiliati...

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

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

The Secret Intelligence Servic...

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

It's part of a writer's profes...

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

But I think the real tension l...

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

My definition of a decent soci...

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

I worked for MI6 in the Sixtie...

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

I think that all writers feel ...

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

There are moments which are ma...

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

[My novels] introduce levels o...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Multi-billion-dollar multinati...

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Life was to be a search, or no...

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

All men are born free: just no...

All men are born free: just not for long.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

God is in his Heaven and the f...

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

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