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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Spy
Writer
Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.
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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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Every writer knows he is spurious every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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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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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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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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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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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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Love means having something to betray.
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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