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Love means having something to betray.
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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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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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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
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In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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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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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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He has the gift of quiet.
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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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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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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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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
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