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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night. — John le Carre · 1963Spy novel2 quotes
We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night. — John le Carre · 1963Autobiography and memoir1 quote
I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God. — Mary Butts · 1937