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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John le Carré frasi celebri
“Non è una colpa desiderare un attimo di pace almeno al tramonto della vita.”
Origine: Da La talpa, p. 27.
John le Carré libro Il nostro traditore tipo
Origine: Il nostro traditore tipo, p. 134
John le Carré libro Il visitatore segreto
Il visitatore segreto
“Se il vento mi trasporta per niente, perché devo camminare?”
John le Carré libro L'onorevole scolaro
Origine: L'onorevole scolaro, p. 161
“Se devi comprare qualcuno, compralo dalla testa ai piedi.”
John le Carré libro L'onorevole scolaro
Origine: L'onorevole scolaro, p. 161
John le Carré Frasi e Citazioni
“Non sottovalutare mai la forza dei sentimenti su un orientale, ma non contarci neppure. Amen.”
John le Carré libro L'onorevole scolaro
Origine: L'onorevole scolaro, p. 162
“Un comitato è un animale con quattro gambe posteriori.”
John le Carré libro L'onorevole scolaro
L'onorevole scolaro
“Non sono un uomo di Dio, anche se credo che la società sia migliore con Lui che non senza.”
John le Carré libro La passione del suo tempo
Origine: La passione del suo tempo, p. 116
John le Carré libro La passione del suo tempo
Origine: La passione del suo tempo, p. 118-119
John le Carré libro La passione del suo tempo
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 libro The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
John le Carré libro Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
John le Carré libro 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 libro 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)
John le Carré libro Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“Blackmail is more effective than bribery.”
John le Carré libro Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
John le Carré libro The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“Nothing in life… even a few broken bones, is without its reward.”
John le Carré libro The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
John le Carré libro Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
“Luck's just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you're screwed.”
John le Carré libro 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)
