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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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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Screenwriter
Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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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 think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
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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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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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On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
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When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly it's just the beginning.
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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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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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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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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