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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
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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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The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.
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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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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
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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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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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