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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.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.
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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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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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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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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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Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
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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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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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Love means having something to betray.
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