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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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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
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