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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.
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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David John Moore Cornwell
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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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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
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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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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
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For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
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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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The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.
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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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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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If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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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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I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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