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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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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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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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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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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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The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
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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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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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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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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior
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We've had enough. He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. We've had a bellyful, in fact. And like everyone who's had enough, said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, he wants more.
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