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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."

John le Carre on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

    Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

  • "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

    Socrates on Marriage

  • "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

  • "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

    Oscar Wilde on Marriage

  • "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

    James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by John le Carre

  • "By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."

  • "When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."

  • "I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

  • "I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making."

  • "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."

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