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David John Moore Cornwell, dit John le Carré, est un romancier britannique, né le 19 octobre 1931 à Poole. Durant les années 1950 et 1960, Cornwell a travaillé pour le MI5 et le MI6 et a commencé à écrire des romans sous le pseudonyme de « John le Carré ». Son troisième roman, L'Espion qui venait du froid , est devenu un best-seller international et demeure l'une de ses œuvres les plus connues. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. octobre 1931
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John le Carré: Citations en anglais

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré livre The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

“You see a lot — your eyes get very painful.”

John le Carré livre Smiley's People

Smiley's People (1979)

“I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.”

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John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“If I could generalize about my work in intelligence in those days, for better or worse, we counted ourselves an elite with a very considerable responsibility: to speak truth to power, like good journalists, that whatever we came upon, however offensive it was to those in power, we told it straight.”

John le Carré

John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?”

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from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy <br class="br">The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) <br class="br">Source: Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel &amp; U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/the_united_states_of_america_has (25 December 2020)

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

John le Carré livre The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)

“Where I kick myself is where I think I actually contributed to the myth of the intelligence services being very good.”

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As quoted in Halliwell&#x27;s Film Companion https://archive.org/details/halliwellswhoswh00hall/page/280/mode/2up (1985) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 281

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