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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
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
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
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In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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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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Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
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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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You should have died when I killed you.
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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
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