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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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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

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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.

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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

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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.

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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1931

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