What did John le Carre mean by: I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. - John le Carre Author Copy
+ 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
+ A committee is an animal with four back legs. Feraz Zeid, June 25, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Animal, Four, Legs, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Survival…is an infinite capacity for suspicion. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Capacity, Infinite, Survival, 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
+ 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
+ Completing a book, it’s a little like having a baby. Feraz Zeid, July 8, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Baby, Book, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Enemy, Fool, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Yet it’s not for want of future that I’m here, he thought. It’s for want of a present. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, 0 - John le Carre Author
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Explain - Ludwig von Mises Economist · Austria
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. - Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
