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  1. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: how far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?
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  2. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    doubtful, we shall know where the
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  3. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    They walked to her flat through the rain and they might have been anywhere-Berlin, London, any town where paving stones turn to lakes of light in the evening rain, and the traffic shuffles despondently through wet streets."
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  4. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    Leamas' departure caused only a ripple on the water; with other winds and the changing of the seasons it was soon forgotten.
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  5. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    It's as well to begin as one intends to continue, isn't it?
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  6. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    As they crossed the fifty yards which separated the two checkpoints, Leamas was dimly aware of the new fortifications on the Eastern side of the wall-dragons' teeth, observation towers, and double aprons of barbed wire. Things had brightened up.
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  7. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
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  8. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    Sometimes she thought Alec was right-you believed in things because you needed to; what you believed in had no value of its own, no function. What did he say: "A dog scratches where it itches. Different dogs itch in different places.
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  9. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    Ashe was typical of that stratum of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat.
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  10. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    Austerity pleased her-it gave her the comfort of sacrifice.
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  11. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible, of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean … one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold
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  12. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came in from the

    The Party knows more about us than we know ourselves,' the woman replied.
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