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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Spy
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Happens
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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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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...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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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
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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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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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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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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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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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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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