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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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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to…
— Julie Burchill
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the…
— Michael Caine
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John le Carre
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I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
— Tori Amos
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I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family…
— Tori Amos
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If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.
— Robin Williams
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
— Twiggy
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies,…
— Felicity Jones
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As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.
— Klaus Schulze
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