Origine: Da John Le Carré, elogio del dottor Watson, traduzione di Maria Sepa, Corriere della sera, 5 dicembre 2004, p. 34.
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“Non è una colpa desiderare un attimo di pace almeno al tramonto della vita.”
Origine: Da La talpa, p. 27.
Origine: Il nostro traditore tipo, p. 134
Il visitatore segreto
John le Carré Frasi e Citazioni
“Non sottovalutare mai la forza dei sentimenti su un orientale, ma non contarci neppure. Amen.”
Origine: L'onorevole scolaro, p. 162
“Un comitato è un animale con quattro gambe posteriori.”
L'onorevole scolaro
“Non sono un uomo di Dio, anche se credo che la società sia migliore con Lui che non senza.”
Origine: La passione del suo tempo, p. 116
Origine: La passione del suo tempo, p. 118-119
Origine: La passione del suo tempo, p. 120
John le Carré: Frasi in inglese
“Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.”
John le Carré
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
John le Carré
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
John le Carré
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness”
"The United States of America Has Gone Mad" (2003)
Contesto: America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 141
Contesto: I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. 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.
“So odd to think of the Devil as a fumbler!”
John le Carré
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.”
Radio interview (November 2008)
“Blackmail is more effective than bribery.”
John le Carré
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“Nothing in life… even a few broken bones, is without its reward.”
John le Carré
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“Luck's just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you're screwed.”
John le Carré
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
Radio interview (November 2008)
The Constant Gardener (2001)
As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 140
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
