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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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
John le Carre
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Literature
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
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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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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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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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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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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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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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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 better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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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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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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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 fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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