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It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop. — John Le Carre

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. — Carre Otis

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

Because coffee with sugar isn't coffee, it's dessert. It might as well be an energy drink. — Carre Armstrong Gardner

The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless. — John Le Carre

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore. — Carre Otis

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

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish? — Carre Otis

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. — John Le Carre

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

But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. — John Le Carre

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. — 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

You should have died when I killed you. — John Le Carre

It's a little difficult to know when to trust you people and when not. — John Le Carre

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. — Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. — Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. — Carre Otis

And what's life if it isn't invention? Starting with inventing yourself. — John Le Carre

I always say South America's the only place where you cut a gentleman his suit one week and see his statue wearing it the next. — John Le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo. — John Le Carre

It was the skinny boy's stillness, he decided later. Those lines of age in a face as young as mine. His look of winter on a lovely spring day. — John Le Carre

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? — John Le Carre

It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for. — John Le Carre

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life. — John Le Carre

He's going to save the world before he leaves it if it kills him. — John Le Carre

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three. — John Le Carre

But we progress, Your Graces. Inexorably we progress. Albeit at the blind man's speed, as we tap-tap along in the dark. — John Le Carre

However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night we sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing. — John Le Carre

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere. — John Le Carre

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong. — John Le Carre

Think I'll just buff up the silver,' he announced, loud enough for her to hear and do something about him if she wanted. — John Le Carre

He looks like a mixture of Humpty-Dumpty and a Cornish elf
very short and broad
and I don't think he's anyone's fool. — John Le Carre

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D. — John Le Carre

I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of this no-man's land. — John Le Carre

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. — John Le Carre

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences. — Alan Furst

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story. — John Le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. — John Le Carre

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries? — John Le Carre

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years. — Carre Otis

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat. — Carre Otis

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are. — John Le Carre

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John Le Carre

One sacrificed for many. It's not pretty, I know, choosing who it'll be
turning the plan into people. — John Le Carre

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe. — Carre Otis

Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. — John Le Carre

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths. — Susanne Bier

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed. — John Le Carre

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. — John Le Carre

There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you. — John Le Carre

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. — John Le Carre

In Lacon's world, direct questions were the height of bad taste, but direct answers were worse. — John Le Carre

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spying is waiting. — 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

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

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year. — John Le Carre

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model. — Carre Otis

The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime. — John Le Carre

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. — 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

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV. — Carre Otis

Let us honour if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one. Or — John Le Carre

Home's where you go when you run out of homes. — John Le Carre

We pretend a lot of things aren't there. Or we pretend that other things are more important. That's how we survive. — John Le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John Le Carre

These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning. — John Le Carre

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John Le Carre

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water. — John Le Carre

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. — Carre Otis

Never confess, my friend," he advised drowsily, clasping Melik's hand. "If you confess, they will keep you there forever. — John Le Carre

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. — John Le Carre

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. — John Le Carre

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. — John Le Carre

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus — 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

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