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  1. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. Then we have a war. This war.
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  2. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    what is conviction? How do we identify it? How can we know that we should be guided by it? Is it to be found in the heart, or in the intellect? And what if it is only to be found in the one and not the other?
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  3. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    According to our anarchist writers, world conflict should lead to creative chaos. If such chaos is intelligently exploited, a free society will emerge. But when I looked about me, I was forced to accept that the preconditions of creative chaos did not exist, neither did the intelligent exploiters. Chaos presupposes a vacuum of power, yet bourgeois power was gaining everywhere, and so was the military might of America, for whom West Germany was by now the arsenal and craven ally in the world war that appeared inevitable. As to the intelligent exploiters, they were too busy making profits and driving Mercedes cars to avail themselves of the opportunities we had created for them.
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  4. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul."
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  5. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    The easiest and cheapest trick for any leader is to take his country to war on false pretenses.
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  6. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.
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  7. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    We cannot live in a bubble, Mr. Mundy. Comfortable ignorance is not a solution. In German student societies that I was not permitted to join, they made a toast: 'Better to be a salamander, and live in the fire.'" After"
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  8. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    Outside the school's walls the Swinging Sixties are in full cry, but inside them the band of Empire plays on. Twice-daily chapel services praise the school's war dead to the detriment of its living, value the white man above lesser breeds, and preach chastity to boys who can find sexual stimulation in a Times editorial."
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  9. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    He has his chin on his chest and his eyes down. He is thinking of his new baby, his new novel, tomorrow's dance contest. He is thinking of everything except what he is thinking about.
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  10. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    With people you see in them what you already know.
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  11. John le Carré _ Absolute Friends

    There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. "
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