John le Carré Frases famosas
John le Carré: Frases em inglês
“Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.”
The Mission Song (2006)
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
Smiley's People (1979)
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
The Mission Song (2006)
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness”
"The United States of America Has Gone Mad" (2003)
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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!”
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.”
Smiley's People (1979)
“Nothing in life… even a few broken bones, is without its reward.”
The Mission Song (2006)
“Luck's just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you're screwed.”
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)
