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
+ 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
+ To possess another language is to possess another soul. Feraz Zeid, July 15, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Language, Soul, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John le Carre, Moments, Stuff, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Without a pen in my hand I can’t think. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, John le Carre, Hand, Writing, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ There’s one thing worse than change and that’s the status quo. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, One Thing, Status Quo, 0 - John le Carre Author
+ Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 26, 2023, John le Carre, Strength, Weak, 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
+ A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John le Carre, Sacrifice, Soul, 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
