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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
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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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And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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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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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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