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Let's die of it before we're too old. — John Le Carre

John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility. — Gordon R. Dickson

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John Le Carre

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. — John Le Carre

He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included. — John Le Carre

He has the gift of quiet. — John Le Carre

You can't eat politics, you can't sell them, and you can't sleep with them,' Drake liked to say. So you might as well make money out of them. — John Le Carre

Todd and Larry were Quinn's people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful. — John Le Carre

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang. — 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. — John Le Carre

Who's an ex-diplomat of all people to complain if the wrapping is prettier than what's inside? — John Le Carre

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company. — John Le Carre

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. — John Le Carre

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. — John Le Carre

Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy. — John Le Carre

If a decade of diplomatic life had taught Toby one thing, it was to treat every crisis as normal and soluble. — John Le Carre

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John Le Carre

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can. — John Le Carre

To give the best of the day to your work is most important. — John Le Carre

he asked, in a more tentative tone, "What's the — John Le Carre

It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. — John Le Carre

Spying is waiting. — John Le Carre

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. — John Le Carre

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carre

I had been playing Shostakovich on the stereo, but without conviction. — John Le Carre

More cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none. — John Le Carre

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. — John Le Carre

I write and walk and swim and drink. — John Le Carre

They loved each other and believed they loved mankind, they fought each other and believed they fought the world. — John Le Carre

The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed. — John Le Carre

I know their unstinted devotion to the free-market economy, provided it's their freedom and somebody else's economy. — John Le Carre

Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life. — John Le Carre