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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
John le Carre
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John le Carre
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 19
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
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Sweetwater
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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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