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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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
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You should have died when I killed you.
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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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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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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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And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
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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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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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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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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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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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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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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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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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