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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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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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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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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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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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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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I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
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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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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes.
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