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And to my awe, add over time a kind of impotent anger. Anger, because from the day my novel was published, I realized that now and forever more I was to be branded as the spy turned writer, rather than as a writer who, like scores of his kind, had done a stint in the secret world and written about it.
John le Carré • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
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Or, as a loyal servant of his corporation, assuring us that smoking is harmless to the health of the Third World and great banks are there to serve the public. What have I learned over the last fifty years? Come to think of it, not much. Just that the morals of the secret world are very like our own.
John le Carré • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
“Hop in, Mr. Amies,” the driver replied, and opened the door. They drove west, towards the King’s Road. The driver knew the way. Control opened the door. “George Smiley’s out,” he said. “I’ve borrowed his house. Come in.” Not until Leamas was inside and the front door closed, did Control put on the hall light.
John le Carré • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
