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  1. John le Carré _ Our Kind of Traitor

    ... turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn't dare say.
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  2. John le Carré _ Our Kind of Traitor

    He's going to save the world before he leaves it if it kills him.
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  3. John le Carré _ Our Kind of Traitor

    You'll just have to take our word for it.' 'Your Service's word?' 'For the time being, yes.' 'On the strength of what? Aren't you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?' 'That's diplomats. We're not gentlemen.' 'So you lie to save your hides.' 'That's politicians. Different game entirely.
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  4. John le Carré _ Our Kind of Traitor

    It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
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