“You’re wrong,” Liz declared hopelessly; “they’re more wicked than all of us.” “Because I made love to you when you thought I was a tramp?” Leamas asked savagely. “Because of their contempt,” Liz replied; “contempt for what is real and good; contempt for love, contempt for…” “Yes,” Leamas agreed, suddenly weary. “That is the price [...]
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Tall, with rather curly brown hair; orange tie and pale green shirt; a little bit petulant, a little bit of a pansy, thought Leamas. Could be a schoolmaster, ex London School of Economics and runs a suburban drama club. Weak-eyed. Hey! I’m ex- LSE – I didn’t realise it used to be a by-word for [...]
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“I mean, you’ve got to compare method with method, and ideal with ideal. I would say that since the war, our methods—ours and those of the opposition—have become much the same. I mean you can’t be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government’s policy is benevolent, can you now?” He laughed quietly to [...]
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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… do you see what I mean?
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It is said a dog lives as long as its teeth;
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And then there was this pest of a girl. He sighed. Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.
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