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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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Screenwriter
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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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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In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
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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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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
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It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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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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On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
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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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