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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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The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.
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The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
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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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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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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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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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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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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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America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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