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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
Screenwriter
Spy
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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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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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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If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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