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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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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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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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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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
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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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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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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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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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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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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
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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'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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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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