Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
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Read between June 5 - June 23, 2019
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But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation.
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He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man.
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the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between the mind and the body: