El espía que surgió del frío by John le Carré

His relationship with his father was difficult, given the man had been jailed for insurance fraud, and was continually in debt a biographer reports: John le Carré said he did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, until their re-acquaintance when he was twenty-one years old. He was the second son to the marriage, the first being Tony, two years his elder, now a retired advertising executive his younger half-sister is the actress Charlotte Cornwell and Rupert Cornwell, a former Independent newspaper Washington bureau chief, is a younger half-brother. On 19 October 1931, David John Moore Cornwell was born to Richard Thomas Archibald (Ronnie) Cornwell (1906-75) and Olive (Gassy) Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, England, UK. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.' 'You should have died when I killed you.' To pretend otherwise is to cheat.' 'Writing is like walking in a deserted street. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become.

Betrayal can only happen if you love.' 'The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.' 'If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.' 'Love is whatever you can still betray. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.' 'History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. 'A committee is an animal with four back legs.' 'A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.' 'Fools, most linguists.

El espía que surgió del frío by John le Carré