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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
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Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
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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 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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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
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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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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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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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