John le Carre Quotes & Sayings

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87 most famous John le Carre quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

John le Carre Quotes
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
John le Carre Quotes
“During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.”
“In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.”
John le Carre Quotes
“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.”
“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 Quotes
“Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.”
“I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.”
“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 Quotes
“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.”
“The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.”

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