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  1. Barry Eisler _ The Detachment

    Rationalization was my narcotic. And, as with all drugs, over time, I habituated to mine. I needed more and more to accomplish less and less. Eventually, there was no dose at all that could confer the comfort I craved.
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  2. Barry Eisler _ The Detachment

    The hawk with talent hides its talons.
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  3. Barry Eisler _ The Detachment

    I didn't know what I wanted. I trained at the Kodokan and reflected at quiet shrines and enjoyed my jazz clubs and coffee houses and whisky bars. I took long, nocturnal walks through the damascene city, and considered what I'd been part of, and what I'd almost caused. I wondered about my son and I missed Delilah. I thought about Horton. I made no decisions. I
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  4. Barry Eisler _ The Detachment

    Maybe democracies, maybe all cultures, had life cycles, the same as the humans who comprised them. And maybe there were things cultures could do to extend their lives-the equivalent of exercise and eating right, or, to analogize to what Horton had done, the equivalent of radical surgery-but those things would, in the end, matter only at the margins. Maybe, regardless of the efforts of the exceptional few, the genes hidden and inherent in a culture's own DNA would dictate a length of years, and make inevitable the onset of sclerosis, and senility, and death, as ineluctably as the Fates cutting the thread of an individual life.
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  5. Barry Eisler _ The Detachment

    No aru taka wa, tsume o kakusu, as the Japanese saying goes. The hawk with talent hides its talons.
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