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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
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
Died
Literature
Killed
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
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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 all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
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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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And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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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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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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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.
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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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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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 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 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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