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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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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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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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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've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
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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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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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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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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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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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 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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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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