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About John le Carré
John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), who was a British writer of spy novels and a former spy himself.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Additional quotes by John le Carré
If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
The greatest crime is to do nothing because we can only do a little (...) I feel nothing, because feeling is subversive and contrary to military discipline. Therefore I do not feel, but I fight and therefore I exist. (part I, chapter 10)
...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.