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You should have died when I killed you.
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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Literature
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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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In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
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Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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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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I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
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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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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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A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
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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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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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