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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.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 19, 1931

Topics

Good Time Struggle Writing World

Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.

Maud Welzen

Sleep I Am Paris Bed Apartment Days

I like the look of a windmill.

Jeff Duncan

Look Like Windmill

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

Love Reason Solutions Seek Because

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Michael Tippett

Extreme Theater Characters Form

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Janis Joplin

Soul People Black Feel You White

I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Fun Remember Speech Young Sometimes

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Learn Listen Skeptical

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

Body Cinema Bone Little Cut Off

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Leadership Failure Fishing People Me

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

Colin Trevorrow

Home Me Feel San Francisco Northwest

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Bob Marley

People Fall Smoke More Herb Babylon

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Reality Only Like Institutions Allow