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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public…
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's…
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how…
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives…
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