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Out of date, perhaps, but who ...

Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

All power corrupts but some mu...

All power corrupts but some must govern.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

To possess another language, C...

To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The cold war provided the perf...

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

In every operation there is an...

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

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

[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

Yet it's not for want of futur...

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

Home's where you go when you r...

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

John Le Carre 239 quotes

There was nothing dishonourabl...

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

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

Survival...is an infinite capa...

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

John Le Carre 239 quotes

The pharmaceutical corporation...

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

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

People are very secretive - se...

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

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

...in the hands of politicians...

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

John Le Carre 239 quotes

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