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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
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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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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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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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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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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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
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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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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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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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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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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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