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I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.
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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People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
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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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It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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