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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

John le Carre

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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Actor
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
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The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior
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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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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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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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Love means having something to betray.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
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I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
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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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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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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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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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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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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
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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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