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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

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A committee is an animal with four back legs.

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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

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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.

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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

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To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1931

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