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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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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then…
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With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
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And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
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George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other…
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Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've…
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What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be…
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
— Thomas Hardy
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I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.
— Phil Robertson
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I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow -…
— David A. R. White
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My wicked, twisted thoughts
— Leslie
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FORGIVE ME FOR MY WICKED SIDE. THE GAPING GASHES OF MY SOUL. ARE THE SIN OF BLADE I KEPT INSIDE, AND BARED…
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