And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John le CarreThe trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.
John le CarreWhen a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
John le CarreDuring the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
John le CarreNovelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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