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

    It is a prison for those who fail to recognize socialist reality; for those who think they have the right to err; for those who slow down the march. Traitors," she concluded briefly. "But what have they done?" "We cannot build communism without doing away with individualism. You cannot plan a great building if some swine builds his sty on your site.
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    {...} suppose you had done that, suppose it were true - {...} would you kill a man, an innocent man-' 'Mundt's a killer himself.' 'Suppose he wasn't. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?' 'It depends … it depends on the need …' 'Ah,' said Fiedler contentedly, 'it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.' 'Why?' '{...} We're all the same, you know, that's the joke.
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    I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.
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    Are you going to eat that?" she inquired, indicating the food on the desk. Liz shook her head. "Then I must," she declared, with a grotesque attempt at reluctance. "They have given you a potato. You must have a lover in the kitchen." The humor of this observation sustained her until she had finished the last of Liz's meal.
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    Then the people in this prison are intellectuals?" The woman smiled. "Yes," she said, "they are reactionaries who call themselves progressive: they defend the individual against the state. Do you know what Khrushchev said about the counterrevolution in Hungary?" Liz shook her head. She must show interest, she must make the woman talk. "He said it would never have happened if a couple of writers had been shot in time.
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  7. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    Some people keep canaries, some people join the Party,
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  8. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    Espionage is not a cricket game
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  9. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    You see, for us it does," Fiedler continued. "I myself would have put a bomb in a restaurant if it brought us farther along the road. Afterwards I would draw the balance-so many women, so many children; and so far along the road. But Christians-and yours is a Christian society-Christians may not draw the balance.
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  10. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    W ciemności wszystkie koty są czarne...
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  11. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    But she never quite saw the fighting for votes and the fighting for sales in the same way. Perhaps that was because it cut them down to size, she thought. It was easy when there were a dozen or so together at a Branch meeting to rebuild the world, march at the vanguard of socialism and talk of the inevitability of history. But afterwards she'd go out into the streets with an armful of Daily Worker's, often waiting an hour, two hours, to sell a copy. Sometimes she'd cheat, as the others cheated, and pay for a dozen herself just to get out of it and go home. At the next meeting they'd boast about it-forgetting they'd bought them themselves-"Comrade Gold sold eighteen copies on Saturday night-eighteen!" It would go in the Minutes then, and the Branch bulletin as well. District would rub their hands, and perhaps she'd get a mention in that little panel on the front page about the Fighting Fund. It was such a little world, and she wished they could be more honest. But she lied to herself about it all, too. Perhaps they all did. Or perhaps the others understood more why you had to lie so much.
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  12. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    Coffee he drinks-nothing else-just coffee all the time. He says Germans are too introspective to make good agents, and it all comes out in counterintelligence. He says counterintelligence people are like wolves chewing dry bones-you have to take away the bones and make them find new quarry-I see all that, I know what he means. But he's gone too far.
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