English - Writer | October 19, 1931 -
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
John le Carre
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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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.
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
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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.
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