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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.
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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
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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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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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