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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
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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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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On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
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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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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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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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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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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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He has the gift of quiet.
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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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I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
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I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
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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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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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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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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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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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You should have died when I killed you.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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