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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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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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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
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The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
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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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