John le Carré

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1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 1982 age 51

   CreditSmiley's Peoplescreenwriter

3. 1984 age 53

   CreditThe Little Drummer Girl

   CreditThe Little Drummer Girlscreenwriter

4. 2001 age 70

   CreditThe Tailor of Panamaproducer

   CreditThe Tailor of Panamascreenwriter

5. 2011 age 80

   CreditTinker Tailor Soldier Spy

   CreditTinker Tailor Soldier Spyexecutive producer

6. 2014 age 83

   CreditA Most Wanted Manexecutive producer

7. 2020 age 89

   Died

• CHCiarán Hinds1 title
• IVIndira Varma1 title
• TMTobias Menzies1 title
• RWRobin Wright1 title
• JHJonathan Hyde1 title
• DKDiane Keaton1 title
• WRWilliam H. Reynolds1 title
• GOGary Oldman1 title
• MMMark Margolis1 title
• JSJonathan Sagall1 title

• Influenced by

  • GGGraham Greene

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

  John le Carré, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

  John le Carré, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

  John le Carré, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because 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. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.

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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. <br /> The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.

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• One... shouldn't underrate these networks of influence that flow out of enormous intelligence agencies like the CIA. There are guys sitting on certain floors of certain buildings whose sole job is to massage opinion. And in those days, the CIA was financing magazines, it was financing movies of its own.

  John le Carré, CC BY-SA 4.0