Frases de John le Carré (50 citas, página 2)

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Frases célebres de John le Carré

“Hasta que no tengamos una mejor relación entre el comportamiento privado y la verdad pública, como se ha demostrado con el caso Watergate, nosotros al igual que el público tenemos absolutamente derecho a continuar sospechando, incluso despectivamente, del secreto y la desinformación que son un resumen de nuestras noticias.”

John le Carré

“El amor es todo aquello que aún puedes traicionar. La traición sólo puede suceder si tú amas.”

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Fuente: [Castro Flórez], Fernando. Sainetes y otros desafueros del arte contemporáneo, pág. 152. Editorial CENDEAC, 2007. ISBN 84-935369-7-0 http://books.google.es/books?id=HvYVVMeM-MYC&pg=PA152 En Google Books.

“Estados Unidos ha entrado en uno de sus periodos de locura histórica, pero éste es el peor de cuantos recuerdo: peor que el macartismo, peor que la bahía de Cochinos y, a largo plazo, potencialmente más desastroso que la guerra de Vietnam.”

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“La Historia guarda sus secretos más tiempo que la mayoría de nosotros. Pero tiene un secreto que voy a revelarles a ustedes esta noche en la mayor confianza. A veces no hay ganadores en absoluto. Y a veces, nadie tiene que perder.”

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“Es parte de la profesión de escritor, como es parte de la profesión de espía, aprovecharse de la comunidad a la que está unido, para tomar información —a menudo en secreto— y traducirla en la inteligencia de sus amos, ya sean sus lectores o sus jefes en el espionaje. Y creo que ambas profesiones son, posiblemente, más bien solitarias.”

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“Un escritorio es un lugar peligroso desde el que ver el mundo.”

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“Bush tiene a Dios agarrado por el cuello. Y Dios tiene opiniones políticas muy particulares.”

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Fuente: «A vista de Red: Estados Unidos ha enloquecido - por John Le Carré.» 24 de enero de 2003. http://www.elinconformistadigital.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=366 El inconformista digital.

“En todas las zonas bélicas en las cuales he estado, ha habido una realidad distinta a la percepción que el público tenga de los motivos por los que se está librando la guerra. En todos los crisis, en toda confrontación con que me he cruzado, los temas han sido mucho más complejos que lo que a la opinión pública se le permite saber.”

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Original: «In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know».
Fuente: [Broccoli], Matthew J. y Judith S. [Baughman] (en inglés). Conversations with John Le Carré (2004), p. 139. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2004. ISBN 1578066697, 9781578066698. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=jxPWT_Lo5yQC&q=war+zone#v=snippet&q=war%20zone&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 19 de octubre de 2019.
Fuente: Entrevista en Conversations with John Le Carré (2004)

John le Carré: Frases en inglés

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 film)”

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“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

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John le Carré libro The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.”

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John le Carré libro The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?”

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John le Carré libro The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“You see a lot — your eyes get very painful.”

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John le Carré libro Smiley's People

Smiley's People (1979)

“No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.”

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John le Carré libro The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“Who do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I’d have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass that you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me.”

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Fuente: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963), p.231

“I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.”

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John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“If I could generalize about my work in intelligence in those days, for better or worse, we counted ourselves an elite with a very considerable responsibility: to speak truth to power, like good journalists, that whatever we came upon, however offensive it was to those in power, we told it straight.”

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John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?”

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from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
Fuente: Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/the_united_states_of_america_has (25 December 2020)