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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9e7d419 | It's as well to begin as one intends to continue, isn't it? | John le Carré | ||
| bf8d021 | Leamas' departure caused only a ripple on the water; with other winds and the changing of the seasons it was soon forgotten. | John le Carré | ||
| 70ec1f9 | John le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in many ways defines the spy genre; it introduces the grand theme of ferreting out the Russian agent high up in British intelligence. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| f99b84a | Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray." THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, JOHN LE CARRE" | Brittany Cavallaro | ||
| 73c2f9d | I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterbox | secrets | John le Carré | |
| 42e149a | Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbour. Each is alone | John le Carré | ||
| 0a3c16d | He had never guessed it was possible to be frightened for so long. | John le Carré | ||
| 9c8e239 | sentries | John le Carré | ||
| efb7818 | You can't eat politics, you can't sell them, and you can't sleep with them,' Drake liked to say. So you might as well make money out of them. | John le Carré | ||
| 8569c61 | one of those world builders who do othing but destroy, | John le Carré | ||
| ce76ec1 | band above her and calls to somebody she | John le Carré | ||
| 0ba1590 | Dining alone had always been his particular pleasure, and tonight, in deference to the war's depletion, Maitre Berri had promoted him from his single-seater by the service door to one of the high altars at the window. | John le Carré | ||
| 87968cf | The pallor of his eyes caught you by surprise. You expected more challenge from him, heavier shadows. And | John le Carré | ||
| 6f936b2 | Was anyone else mentioned?' 'Esterhase,' Jim snapped, in the same taut tone. 'Bloody man wanted to know how anyone could trust a Hungarian. | John le Carré | ||
| 84b7bd4 | breath and caught the | John le Carré | ||
| 9eef8e6 | The most effective deceit is the one which is never discovered. | John le Carré | ||
| d46f0c6 | Leamas saw. He saw the long road outside Rotterdam, the long straight road beside the dunes, and the stream of refugees moving along it; saw the little aeroplane miles away, the procession stop and look towards it; and the plane coming in, nearly over the dunes; saw the chaos, the meaningless hell, as the bombs hit the road. | John le Carré | ||
| 64a9244 | must be | John le Carré | ||
| 623dbf0 | Querran hacer deducciones "a pesar" de usted --habia dicho Control--. Debemos darles el material y permanecer escepticos respecto a sus conclusiones. Confiar en su inteligencia y en su presuncion, en sus sospechas mutuas... eso es lo que debemos hacer.>>" | John le Carré | ||
| 2e7ed89 | describia a un catedratico universitario de letras clasicas que antano habria escuchado a Bach, leido a Mauriac y consumido peliculas de arte y ensayo, y que, hoy, escucha a Haendel y al rapero MC Solaar, lee a Flaubert y a John Le Carre,va al cine a ver una de Visconti y la ultima entrega de Jungla de cristal, almuerza hamburguesas y cena sushi. | Muriel Barbery | ||
| 356335f | He had seen it, even in men who had undergone a complete ideological reversal, who in the secret hours of the night had found a new creed, and alone, compelled by the internal power of their convictions, had betrayed their calling, their families, their countries. Even they, filled as they were with new zeal and new hope, had had to struggle against the stigma of treachery; even they wrestled with the al most physical anguish of saying that.. | John le Carré | ||
| 466e356 | Coffee he drinks--nothing else--just coffee all the time. He says Germans are too introspective to make good agents, and it all comes out in counterintelligence. He says counterintelligence people are like wolves chewing dry bones--you have to take away the bones and make them find new quarry--I see all that, I know what he means. But he's gone too far. | John le Carré | ||
| 04ed5ed | But she never quite saw the fighting for votes and the fighting for sales in the same way. Perhaps that was because it cut them down to size, she thought. It was easy when there were a dozen or so together at a Branch meeting to rebuild the world, march at the vanguard of socialism and talk of the inevitability of history. But afterwards she'd go out into the streets with an armful of Daily Worker's, often waiting an hour, two hours, to sel.. | John le Carré | ||
| 1112f64 | It was him taught Idi Amin's lads how to extract voluntary confessions with the aid of an electric cattle-prod. Our chum likes them English and he likes them with a dirty past. He | John le Carré | ||
| 64b2020 | Dealing with beautiful women, Your Grace, Craw had warned, is like dealing with known criminals, and the lady you are about to solicit undoubtedly falls within that category. | John le Carré | ||
| 7e4a753 | Vive de la inteligencia de sus subordinados. En fin, quiza en esto consista la gran virtud del jefe, en nuestros dias. | John le Carré | ||
| 11f3394 | When the truth catches up with you, don't be a hero, run. | John le Carré | ||
| 8c10b43 | W ciemnosci wszystkie koty sa czarne... | John le Carré | ||
| a83df04 | thing at | John le Carré | ||
| bb11475 | Essere inumani in difesa della nostra umanita, spietati in difesa della compassione. Essere monotoni in difesa della nostra varieta. | John le Carré | ||
| f2aeb31 | They walked to her flat through the rain and they might have been anywhere--Berlin, London, any town where paving stones turn to lakes of light in the evening rain, and the traffic shuffles despondently through wet streets. | John le Carré | ||
| d746178 | Either she knew exactly, or not at all, the power of each slight gesture she made. | John le Carré | ||
| c366293 | It took Jonathan a moment to realize that Jeds was the woman. Not Jed, a single man, but Jeds a single woman in all her varieties. | John le Carré | ||
| 14c28a5 | age. | John le Carré | ||
| d4c97de | was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. | John le Carré | ||
| 9298b0a | sauntering | John le Carré | ||
| 61b74e4 | You see, for us it does," Fiedler continued. "I myself would have put a bomb in a restaurant if it brought us farther along the road. Afterwards I would draw the balance--so many women, so many children; and so far along the road. But Christians--and yours is a Christian society--Christians may not draw the balance." | John le Carré | ||
| 86d2ef8 | Espionage is not a cricket game | John le Carré | ||
| f900bec | Some people keep canaries, some people join the Party, | John le Carré | ||
| b72dd3b | Then the people in this prison are intellectuals?" The woman smiled. "Yes," she said, "they are reactionaries who call themselves progressive: they defend the individual against the state. Do you know what Khrushchev said about the counterrevolution in Hungary?" Liz shook her head. She must show interest, she must make the woman talk. "He said it would never have happened if a couple of writers had been shot in time." | John le Carré | ||
| 53d9577 | Are you going to eat that?" she inquired, indicating the food on the desk. Liz shook her head. "Then I must," she declared, with a grotesque attempt at reluctance. "They have given you a potato. You must have a lover in the kitchen." The humor of this observation sustained her until she had finished the last of Liz's meal." | John le Carré | ||
| d217fdb | After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting. | John le Carré | ||
| 7ad795c | When we can't hurt our enemies, we hurt our friends. | John le Carré | ||
| d5e5b73 | turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn't dare say. | John le Carré |