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He has the gift of quiet.
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
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Quiet
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A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
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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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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
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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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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
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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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Love means having something to betray.
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In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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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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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
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