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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Spy
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time.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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All men are born free: just not for long.
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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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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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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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 are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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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 death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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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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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
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