"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
― John le Carre
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Age
More From John le Carre
- "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."
- "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 worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services."
More In Age
- "I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn’t think they’d come home alive. I didn’t think I would either, so I was happy when I did."― Ed Koch
- "I want to live to be 120. That’s when I will start worrying about my age."― Helena Christensen
- "I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."― Rodney Dangerfield