348 Quotes by John le Carré


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    For better or worse, I’ve been involved in the description of political conflict.

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    Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven’t made is to talk about the unwritten book.

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    Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

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    The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country.

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    I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

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    Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world’s sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

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    When you’re my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you’re seeing the show come round again.

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