Latest John le Carre Quotes from Interviews

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• Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

  John le Carre

  Book, Thinking, Dedicated

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• When it comes to recruiting people for the secret world, what the recruiters are looking for is pretty much what I had. I was unanchored, looking for an institution to look after me. I had a bit of larceny. I understood larceny. I understood the natural criminality in people - because it was - it was all around me. And I have no doubt there was a chunk of it inside me too. Once I found that identity, it took root in me. It exactly - it gelled with the world that I'd known in the past.

  John le Carre

  Past, People, Doubt

  Source: www.cbsnews.com