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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
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
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The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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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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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly it's just the beginning.
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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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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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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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America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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