... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutiv… - John le Carré

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... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

John le Carré

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About John le Carré

John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), who was a British writer of spy novels and a former spy himself.

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Birth Name: David John Moore Cornwell

Alternative Names: David Cornwell • John le Carre

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He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on and the face you spoke from at that moment.

It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.

I read a story once about a poet who bathed himself in cold fountains so that he could recognise his own existence in the contrast.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ... - John le Carré

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