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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
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Literature
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no-one else can make them.
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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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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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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Love means having something to betray.
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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 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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes.
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