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
+ 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
+ He has the gift of quiet. Feraz Zeid, July 12, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Quiet, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Let’s all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we’ll find out who we are. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Be Who You Are, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Never trade a secret, you’ll always get the short end of the bargain. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, End, Secret, Trade, 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
+ Ideologies have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Angel, Heart, Self, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, America, Literature, Madness, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John le Carre, Principles, Stones, War, 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
