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Book: Call for the Dead
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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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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
suspicion, experience, perception, common sense-for Maston these were not the organs of fact. Paper was fact, Ministers were fact,
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
He had never guessed it was possible to be frightened for so long.
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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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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
Smiley presented an odd figure to his fellow passengers – a little fat man, rather gloomy, suddenly smiling, ordering a drink. The young, fair-haired man beside him examined him closely out of the corner of his eye. He knew the type well – the tired executive out for a bit of fun. He found it rather disgusting."
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
changeful, occasionally wise and sympathetic. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man. Mendel
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
Give these people a try, Smiley, they might have you and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun.
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
It's an old illness you suffer from, Mr. Smiley," she continued, taking a cigarette from the box; "and I have seen many victims of it. The mind becomes separated from the body; it thinks without reality, rules a paper kingdom and devises without emotion the ruin of its paper victims. But sometimes the division between your world and ours is incomplete; the files grow heads and arms and legs, and that's a terrible moment, isn't it? The names have families as well as records, and human motives to explain the sad little dossiers and their make-believe sins. When that happens I am sorry for you.
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John le Carré _ Call for the Dead
He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man.
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