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Until We Have A Better Relationship Between Private Performance And The Public Truth, As Was Demonstrated With Watergate, We As The Public Are Absolutely Right To Remain Suspicious, Contemptuous Even, Of The Secrecy And The Misinformation Which Is The Digest Of Our News.

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.

In The Hands Of Politicians Grand Designs Achieve Nothing But New Forms Of The Old Misery.

By The Age Of 9 Or 10, I Knew That I Had To Cut My Own Cloth And Make My Own Way.

But I Think The Real Tension Lies In The Relationship Between What You Might Call The Pursuer And His Quarry, Whether It's The Writer Or The Spy.