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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
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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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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
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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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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John le Carre
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
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Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
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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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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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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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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no-one else can make them.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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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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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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