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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins too but I hadn't noticed the parallel before two characters forced to share a bed reluctantly.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
Quotes By John le Carre
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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...
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie in my opinion. They make their...
Quotes About War
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
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And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...