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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.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
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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 struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.
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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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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
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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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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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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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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