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There's no way out, " he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never."" So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?""Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt, " Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God.Unknown
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She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.Unknown
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... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...Unknown
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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.Unknown
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Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.Unknown