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I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

#ever #guess #i #i think #kill

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #committee #dread #go #i

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. ↗

— John le Carre

#decent #definition #first #first of all #losers

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

#espionage #existence #inside-out #lived #mentality

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

— John le Carre

#book #few #haven #heaven #i

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #good story #harness #same #spying

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. ↗

— John le Carre

#belt #better #few #get #go

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#appliances #control #internet #larger #mobile