John le Carre Quotes and its meanings
John le Carre has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;
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What does John le Carre write about?
John le Carre has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about age, business, education, experience, family, history, hope, imagination, intelligence, marriage, politics, relationship, society, truth & war. People always share Age quotes, Business quotes, education, experience, family, history, hope, imagination, intelligence & marriage from his literary works.
What are the top most famous quotes by John le Carre?
Here are the top most famous quotes by John le Carre.
- By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
- 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.
- 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.
- I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
- More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
- The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
- A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
- I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
- 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.
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.