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John LeCarre Quotes

«Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: betray, betrayal, betrayals
«You should have died when I killed you.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | About: Killing | Keywords: have died
«Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: deserted, mud, mud pie, PIE
«Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | Keywords: bouillon, cube, cubes, oxen
«History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | About: History, Secrets | Keywords: secret history, tonight, winners
«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.»
«Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.»
«If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | Keywords: doing nothing, dozen
«For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer)
«I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer)