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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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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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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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
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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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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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When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly it's just the beginning.
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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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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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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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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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