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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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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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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He has the gift of quiet.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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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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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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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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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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...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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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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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
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