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John le Carré

 

Quotes 

by Author John le Carré

“Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

 “Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.”
― John le Carré, A Perfect Spy

“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

 “By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”
― John Le Carre

 “The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
― John le Carré

 “The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.”
― John le Carré

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

 “Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
― John le Carré, The Looking Glass War

“The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
― John le Carré

“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”

― John Le Carre