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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.
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
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
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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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...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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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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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
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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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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
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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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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
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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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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
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