I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared … - John le Carre

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

John le Carre

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

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Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

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