John le Carre Quotes
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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To survive is to win.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
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I am part of the indivisible unity that is Indian nationality.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
