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  1. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    The opposite of love is not hate but apathy
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  2. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    That's the point, isn't it: the opposite of love isn't hate. It's lethargy.
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  3. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    The most effective deceit is the one which is never discovered.
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  4. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    That's the trouble with Americans, isn't it, really? All that emphasis on the future. So dangerous. It makes them destructive of the present.
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  5. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect that.
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  6. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    They had met at oxford; she had taken a better degree than Avery. But somehow marriage had made her childish; dependence had become an attitude, as if she had given him something irredeemable, and were always asking for it back. Her son was less her projection than her excuse; a wall against the world and not a channel to it.
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  7. John le Carré _ A Small Town in Germany

    It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.
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