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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Actor
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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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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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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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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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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