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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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 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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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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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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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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If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
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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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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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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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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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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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Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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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.
John le Carre
Love means having something to betray.
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