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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.
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
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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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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes.
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For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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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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Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
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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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