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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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.
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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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
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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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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
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The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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