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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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All men are born free: just not for long.
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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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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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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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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
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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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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
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In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
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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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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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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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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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In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
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America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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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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All power corrupts but some must govern.
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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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