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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
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Sweetwater
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David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes.
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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
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In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
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When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
