Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Second Oldest Profession

“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?”

John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

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