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  1. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    has delegated swathes of its own foreign policy to its spies, a thing the United States has done rather too frequently in recent years.
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  2. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    What in Britain is called the Special Relationship, in Germany is called treason.
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  3. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in Interlaken in the snowless winter of whenever it was,
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  4. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    Germany's emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too bitter for many of us Brits to swallow. That is a sadness that I have regretted for far too long.
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  5. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    These are true stories told from memory – to which you are entitled to ask, what is truth, and what is memory to a creative writer in what we may delicately call the evening of his life? To the lawyer, truth is facts unadorned. Whether such facts are ever findable is another matter. To the creative writer, fact is raw material, not his taskmaster but his instrument, and his job is to make it sing. Real truth lies, if anywhere, not in facts, but in nuance.
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  6. John le Carré _ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories

    Nobody can do corporate rot more discreetly than the spies. Nobody does better mission creep. Nobody knows better how to create an image of mysterious omniscience and hide behind it. Nobody does a better job of pretending to be a cut above a public that has no choice but to pay top price for second-rate intelligence whose lure lies in the gothic secrecy of its procurement, rather than its intrinsic worth.
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