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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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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
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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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Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
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When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
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Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
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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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The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.
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I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.
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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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When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time.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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You should have died when I killed you.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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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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All men are born free: just not for long.
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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