John le Carre

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. ↗

— John le Carre

#dangerous place #desk #place #view #which

You should have died when I killed you. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #killed #should #you

The modern pharmaceutical industry is only sixty-five years old. It has good men and women, it has achieved human and social miracles, but its collective conscience is not yet developed. ↗

— John le Carre

#men

A committee is an animal with four back legs. ↗

— John le Carre

#back #committee #four #legs

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. ↗

— John le Carre

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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it. ↗

— John le Carre

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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. ↗

— John le Carre

#big difference #difference #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state

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

#cloth #cut #had #i #knew

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

#call #his #i #i think #lies