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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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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've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
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A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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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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In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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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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A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
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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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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
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In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
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