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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
Film Producer
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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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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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
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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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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
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On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
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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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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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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 was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
John le Carre
We've had enough. He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. We've had a bellyful, in fact. And like everyone who's had enough, said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, he wants more.
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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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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.
John le Carre
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre
The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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