Some Of John Le Carre's Wisdom.

 Time to re-read his novels again...

" Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: 

whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive,

 we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. "

       John Le Carré

" Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. "

       John Le Carré

" To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul.

 German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime,

 you can close the door, you have a refuge. "

      John Le Carré

" We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. 

We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. "

      John Le Carré

" Perhaps we didn't win anyway. ( the cold war ) Perhaps they just lost.

 Or perhaps, without the bonds of ideological  conflict to restrain us any more, 

our troubles are just beginning. "

      John Le Carré

" Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come. "

      John Le Carré, The Night Manager

" Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee ...Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us...

We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within...

We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived. "

       John Le Carré

Birgit