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John Le Carre
 
Date of birth: 19 October 1931
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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" A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. "

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" A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. "

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" A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. "

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" America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. "

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" Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it. "

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" By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. "

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" During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. "

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" Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. "

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" For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. "

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" Graham Greene once referred to a chip of ice that has to be in the writer's heart. And that is the strain: that you must abstain from relationships and yet at the same time engage in them. There you have, I think, the real metaphysical relationship between the writer and the spy. "

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" Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. "

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" History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. "

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" I always begin with one character and then perhaps two, and they seem to be in conflict with each other. "

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" I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. "

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" I cannot help voicing my characters and listening to them-that's the failed actor in me. "

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