"“This is a war,” Leamas replied. “It’s graphic and unpleasant because it’s fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it’s nothing, nothing at all besides other wars—the last or the next.”"
John le Carré

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 25, “The Wall” (p. 204)

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