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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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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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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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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
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If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
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It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
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