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Джон ле Карре́ — английский писатель, автор шпионских романов.

✵ 19. Октябрь 1931
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“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré книга The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.”

John le Carré книга The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?”

John le Carré книга The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“You see a lot — your eyes get very painful.”

John le Carré книга Smiley's People

Smiley's People (1979)

“I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.”

John le Carré

John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“If I could generalize about my work in intelligence in those days, for better or worse, we counted ourselves an elite with a very considerable responsibility: to speak truth to power, like good journalists, that whatever we came upon, however offensive it was to those in power, we told it straight.”

John le Carré

John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?”

John le Carré

from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy <br class="br">The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) <br class="br">Источник: Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel &amp; U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/the_united_states_of_america_has (25 December 2020)

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

John le Carré книга The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)

“Where I kick myself is where I think I actually contributed to the myth of the intelligence services being very good.”

John le Carré

As quoted in Halliwell&#x27;s Film Companion https://archive.org/details/halliwellswhoswh00hall/page/280/mode/2up (1985) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 281

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