What did John le Carre mean by: By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. - John le Carre Author Copy
+ The only reward for love is the experience of loving. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Dream, Experience, Love, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John le Carre, Impossible, Mountain, Writing, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Childhood, Detachment, Monsters, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John le Carre, Design, Hands, Misery, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, John le Carre, Chaos, Still, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Laughing, Things To Do, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Clever, Tragedy, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ All power corrupts but some must govern. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Power Corrupts, 0 - John le Carre Author
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France