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  1. John le Carré _ The Honourable Schoolboy

    And in his customary corner, the awesome Rocker, Superintendent of Police, ex-Palestine, ex-Kenya, ex-Malaya, ex-Fiji, an implacable warhorse with a beer, one set of slightly reddened knuckles, and a weekend copy of the South China Morning Post.
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  2. John le Carré _ A Perfect Spy

    Yet in diplomacy nothing lasts, nothing is absolute, a conspiracy to murder is no grounds for endangering the flow of conversation.
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  3. John le Carré _ Our Game: A Novel

    When people panic, he said, they panic upward. They make for lifts, escalators, stairs, any way to go up, not down. By the time the boys go in, anyone who is not too petrified to move is in the attic.
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  4. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    Sometimes she thought Alec was right – you believed in things because you needed to; what you believed in had no value of its own, no function.
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  5. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    It is a prison for those who fail to recognize socialist reality; for those who think they have the right to err; for those who slow down the march. Traitors," she concluded briefly. "But what have they done?" "We cannot build communism without doing away with individualism. You cannot plan a great building if some swine builds his sty on your site.
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  6. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    {...} suppose you had done that, suppose it were true - {...} would you kill a man, an innocent man-' 'Mundt's a killer himself.' 'Suppose he wasn't. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?' 'It depends … it depends on the need …' 'Ah,' said Fiedler contentedly, 'it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.' 'Why?' '{...} We're all the same, you know, that's the joke.
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  7. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.
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  8. John le Carré _ A Delicate Truth

    En vandaar dwaalde hij af naar een meningsverschil met Friedrich Schillers hoogdravende theorie dat wat de goden tevergeefs bestreden menselijke domheid was. Daar was Toby het niet mee eens. Dat was voor niemand een excuus, of hij nu een god of een mens was. Waar de goden en alle redelijke mensen zich tevergeefs tegen verzetten was helemaal geen domheid. Dat was pure, moedwillige, kloterige onverschilligheid voor ieders belangen behalve die van henzelf.
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  9. John le Carré _ Call for the Dead

    Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbour. Each is alone.
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  11. John le Carré _ A Perfect Spy

    When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before the event is a matter of form rather than of content.
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  12. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: how far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?
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