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John le Carre Biography

David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (/lə ˈkɑːrˌeɪ/), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.

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The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

Religious, War, Ideas, Policy, Aspect

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

George, Oldest, Question, Spies, Spy

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. . . . There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

Baby, Book, Home, Horizon, Consolation

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Able, Example, Fatherhood, Insignificant, Marital

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Average, Live, People, Slightly, Spy

All men are born free: just not for long.

Born, Long, Men

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

Dangerous, Desk, Inspirational, Leadership, Place, Reality

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

Book, Library, Man, Men, Reading

We've had enough. " He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact. " "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

Arm, Arms, Enough Said, Like, Noisily, Want

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Details, Engulf, Keep, Nothing, Problem, Water

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Moments, Occur, Stuff, Too Much

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.

America, Periods, Pigs, War, Worst

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.

Greatest, Needs, Secret, Tonight

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Committee, Committees, Dread, Think, Thinking, Watched

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.

Come, Conspiracy, Political, Spy, Years

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

Design, Forms, Grand, Hands, Misery, Old

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

Night, Heaven, Wow

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

Cowboy, Cowboys, Indians, People, Play, Thinking

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

Americans, Believe, Know, Literature, Should

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

London, Punishment, Removed, Skins, Taxis

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