You have no idea how humiliating it was as a boy to suddenly have all your clothes your toys snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed I felt dirty.
Quotes By John le Carre
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the...
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In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there...
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During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there...
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its...
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might...
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the...
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If there is one eternal truth of politics it is that there are always a...
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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms...
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It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to...
Quotes About Family
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While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system...
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The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that...
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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a...
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But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a...
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce men are...
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I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want...
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My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated...
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When I'm home the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up...