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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Actor
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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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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