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John Le Carre
Total Quotes 177
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.
Wise
Cheating
Childhood
I Think That Where I've Watched A Movie Go Wrong, It's Usually Because The Dread Committee Has Been Interfering With It.
Thinking
Dread
Committees
The Trouble Is, When Professional Spies Go Out Of Their Way To Make A Definitive Statement About One Of Their Own, The Public Tends To Believe The Opposite: Which Puts Us All Back Where We Started.
Believe
Opposites
Spy
It's Death, That's What I'm Suffering From. The Systematic Encroachment Of The Big D.
Death
Suffering
Systematic
The Longing We Have To Communicate Cleanly And Directly With People Is Always Obstructed By Qualifications And Often With Concern About How Our Messages Will Be Received.
People
Literature
Messages
To Possess Another Language Is To Possess Another Soul.
Soul
Language
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.
War
Battle
Technique
For All The Flailing And Huffing And Puffing, There Is A Kind Of Fatality About The Process Of War-making And The Excuses We Find For It, The Consolation Of Belligerence In Politics.
War
Huffing
Kind
Once You've Lived The Inside-out World Of Espionage, You Never Shed It. It's A Mentality, A Double Standard Of Existence.
Double Standard
World
Standards
I Mean, You Can't Be Less Ruthless Than The Opposition Simply Because Your Government's Policy Is Benevolent, Can You Now?
Mean
Government
Ruthless
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.
Hypocrisy
Enemy
Odd
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.
Maturity
Democracy
Age
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.
Dirty
Mean
Boys
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.
Fatherhood
Example
Able
Only Esmeralda Was Not Weeping. Instead She Wore That Wooden Look That Whites Mistake For Churlishenss Or Indifference. Woodrew Knew It Was Neither. It Was Familiarity. This How Real Life Is Constituted, It Said. This Is Grief And Hatred And People Hacked To Death. This Is The Everyday We Have Known Since We Were Born And You Wazungu Have Not.
Mistake
Real
Grief
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.
Father
Book
Grew Up
George Smiley: [quoting An Old Letter From Bill Haydon About Jim Prideaux] He Has That Heavy Quiet That Commands. He's My Other Half. Between Us We'd Make One Marvelous Man. He Asks Nothing Better Than To Be In My Company Or That Of My Wicked, Divine Friends, And I'm Vastly Tickled By The Compliment. He's Virgin, About Eight Foot Tall, And Built By The Same Firm That Did Stonehenge
Men
Eight
Feet
Gerald Westerby, He Told Himself. You Were Present At Your Birth. You Were Present At Your Several Marriages And At Some Of Your Divorces, And You Will Certainly Be Present At Your Funeral. High Time, In Our Considered View, That You Were Present At Certain Other Crucial Moments In Your History.
Divorce
Views
Funeral
Elections Are A Western Jerk-off.
Election
Jerk
Western
Americans Believe That If You Know Something, You Should Do Something About It.
Believe
Literature
Should
God Is In His Heaven And The First Night Was A Wow.
Night
Heaven
Firsts
We've Had Enough." He Took Back The Report And Jammed It Under His Arm. "we've Had A Bellyful, In Fact." "and Like Everyone Who's Had Enough," Said Control As Alleline Noisily Left The Room, "he Wants More.
Enough Said
Want
Arms
Completing A Book, It's A Little Like Having A Baby.
Baby
Book
Littles
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.
Heart
Angel
Self
Born: October 19, 1931
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