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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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
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Spy
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Sweetwater
Texas
David John Moore Cornwell
David Cornwell
John le Carre
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Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
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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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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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Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes.
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The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
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Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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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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Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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