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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
Actor
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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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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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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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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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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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
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