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  1. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterbox
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  2. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note.
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  3. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    more cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.
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  4. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing {...} appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something
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  5. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.
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  6. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.
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  7. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days.
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  8. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    Why am I despising you when I'm about to change your life?
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  9. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    In a civilized country you can never tell.
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  10. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
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  11. John le Carré _ The Constant Gardener

    Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.
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