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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.
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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David John Moore Cornwell
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The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.
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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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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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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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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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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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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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...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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I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
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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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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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Love means having something to betray.
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I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
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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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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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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.
John le Carre
Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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