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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
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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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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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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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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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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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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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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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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In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
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