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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
Film Producer
Novelist
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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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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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 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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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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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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