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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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Sweetwater
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David John Moore Cornwell
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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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.
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If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
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I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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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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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
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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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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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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
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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 death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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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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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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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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I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
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