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Book: The Night Manager
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He ran up our Jonathan to restore the ecological balance.
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
It took Jonathan a moment to realize that Jeds was the woman. Not Jed, a single man, but Jeds a single woman in all her varieties.
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
It was him taught Idi Amin's lads how to extract voluntary confessions with the aid of an electric cattle-prod. Our chum likes them English and he likes them with a dirty past. He
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
The pallor of his eyes caught you by surprise. You expected more challenge from him, heavier shadows. And
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
Dining alone had always been his particular pleasure, and tonight, in deference to the war's depletion, Maître Berri had promoted him from his single-seater by the service door to one of the high altars at the window.
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
band above her and calls to somebody she
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
shoes and a leather jacket. When Burr had
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera."
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
You give the air of looking for someone, Sophie had said. But I think the missing person is yourself. Each
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
Trouble with arms is, everyone thought they were recession-proof, but they're not. Iran–Iraq was an arms dealers' charter, and they thought it would never end. Since then it's been downhill all the way. Too many manufacturers chasing too few wars. Too much loose hardware being dumped on the market. Too much peace about and not enough hard currency. Our Dicky did a bit of the Serbo-Croat thing, of course – Croats via Athens, Serbs via Poland – but the numbers weren't in his league and there were too many dogs in the hunt. Cuba's gone dead, so's South Africa, they make their own. Ireland isn't worth a light or he'd have done that too. Peru, he's got a thing going there, supplying the Shining Path boys. And he's been making a play for the Muslim insurgents in the Southern Philippines, but the North Koreans are in there ahead of him and I've a suspicion he's going to get his nose bloodied again.
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come.
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John le Carré _ The Night Manager
There's no such thing as a decision. There never was. There's whether you've had a good day or a bad day, there's going forward because there's nothing behind and running because if you stand still any longer you'll fall over. There's movement or there's stagnation, there's the past that drives you and the regimental chaplain who preaches that only the obedient are free and the women who say you have no feelings, but they can't live without you.
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