There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
~ John le Carré

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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carré

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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~ John le Carré

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An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:
~ John le Carré

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Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
~ John le Carré

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In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
~ John le Carré

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In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought.
~ John le Carré

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Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
~ John le Carré

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Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré

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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
~ John le Carré

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