What did John le Carre mean by: Yet it’s not for want of future that I’m here, he thought. It’s for want of a present. - John le Carre Author Copy
+ 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
+ The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Doing Nothing, Fact, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. Feraz Zeid, October 28, 2023December 26, 2023, John le Carre, Leadership, Reality, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Identity, Persons, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John le Carre, Dust, Pie, Writing, 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
+ By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Fact, Lying, Repetition, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ People are very secretive – secret even from themselves. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Secret, 0 - John le Carre Author
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France