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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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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Sweetwater
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David John Moore Cornwell
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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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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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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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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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We've had enough. He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. We've had a bellyful, in fact. And like everyone who's had enough, said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, he wants more.
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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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