Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes
John le CarréHe has his chin on his chest and his eyes down. He is thinking of his new baby, his new novel, tomorrow's dance contest. He is thinking of everything except what he is thinking about.
John le CarréStichwörter: thoughtful
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous
John le CarréStichwörter: childhood monsters
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
John le CarréA good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.
John le Carré...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
John le CarréThe more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
John le CarréI honestly do wonder, without wishing to be morbid, how I reached this present pass. So far as I can ever remember of my youth, I chose the secret road because it seemed to lead straightest and furthest toward my... goal... Today, all I know is that I have learned to interpret the whole of life in terms of conspiracy... These people terrify me, but I am one of them. If they stab me in the back, then at least that is the judgement of my peers.
John le CarréTessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.
John le Carré[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities.
John le CarréStichwörter: life_universe_everything
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