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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to… — John le Carre

Novel · Spy novel · Spy

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, 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?

John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold · 1963
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Vulnerability
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Spy novelSpy
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1963
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John le Carre
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Carré, John le. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz & Pan, 1963, ch. 2.

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