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“What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I’d have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens that they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass that you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me.”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
“He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if ever he got home to England; it was the caring about little things - the faith in ordinary life; the simplicity that made you break up a bit of bread into a paper bag, walk down to the beach and throw it to the gulls. It was this respect for triviality which he had never been allowed to possess; whether it was bread of the seagulls or love”
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Charlene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Charlene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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5 friends
1,013 books
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83 books
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85 friends
535 books
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711 books
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140 books
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304 books
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74 friends
71 books
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41 friends
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