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

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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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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 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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Love means having something to betray.
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When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly it's just the beginning.
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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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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 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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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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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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All men are born free: just not for long.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
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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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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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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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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
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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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