über Folter, Stern Nr. 46/2008 vom 6. November 2008, S. 182 http://www.stern.de/kultur/buecher/john-le-carr233-wenn-du-nicht-fuer-uns-bist-bist-du-gegen-uns-645240.html
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Stern Nr. 46/2008 vom 6. November 2008, S. 185 http://www.stern.de/kultur/buecher/2-john-le-carr233-wenn-du-nicht-fuer-uns-bist-bist-du-gegen-uns-645240.html
„Wenn jemand Folter unterstützt, ist er keiner näheren psychologischen Betrachtung wert.“
Stern Nr. 46/2008 vom 6. November 2008, S. 180 http://www.stern.de/kultur/buecher/john-le-carr233-wenn-du-nicht-fuer-uns-bist-bist-du-gegen-uns-645240.html
Quelle: im Gespräch mit Anton Schaller in Das Sonntags Interview (SRF) aus dem Jahr 1989, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3cxiM8ihxM&list=TLPQMTQxMjIwMjAzRsM2TUTf2w&index=1
im Gespräch mit Anton Schaller in Das Sonntags Interview (SRF) aus dem Jahr 1989, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3cxiM8ihxM&list=TLPQMTQxMjIwMjAzRsM2TUTf2w&index=1
John le Carré Zitate und Sprüche
„Wie lange kann man für den Frieden kämpfen, ohne Krieg zu führen?“
im Gespräch mit Anton Schaller in Das Sonntags Interview (SRF) aus dem Jahr 1989, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3cxiM8ihxM&list=TLPQMTQxMjIwMjAzRsM2TUTf2w&index=1
Eine kleine Stadt in Deutschland. Deutsch von Dietrich Schlegel u. Walther Puchwein; Zsolnay, Wien/Hamburg 1968. 4. Kapitel
"You know what they say about Bonn: either it rains or the level crossings are down. In fact, of course, both things happen at the same time." - A Small Town in Germany. 1968. Chapter 4
„Ein Schreibtisch ist ein gefährlicher Ort, um die Welt zu betrachten.“
"Ein Schreibtisch ist ein gefährlicher Ausguck." - Eine Art Held. Deutsch von Rolf und Hedda Soellner. Ullstein 2004
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." - The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
Quelle: im Nachruf von Yassin Musharbash: „Von Maulwürfen und Menschen“, in Die Zeit, Nr. 53, 22. Dezember 2021 https://www.zeit.de/2021/53/john-le-carre-autor-tod/seite-2
„Entweder es regnet, oder die Bahnschranken sind runter.“
Quelle: über Bonn in einem Nachruf von Yassin Musharbash: „Von Maulwürfen und Menschen“, in Die Zeit, Nr. 53, 22. Dezember 2021 https://www.zeit.de/2021/53/john-le-carre-autor-tod/seite-2
John le Carré: Zitate auf Englisch
“Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.”
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness”
"The United States of America Has Gone Mad" (2003)
Kontext: America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 141
Kontext: I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
“So odd to think of the Devil as a fumbler!”
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.”
Radio interview (November 2008)
“Blackmail is more effective than bribery.”
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Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
“Nothing in life… even a few broken bones, is without its reward.”
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“Luck's just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you're screwed.”
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The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
Radio interview (November 2008)
The Constant Gardener (2001)
As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 140
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
