Chapter 11, “The Unrespectable Club” (p. 86)
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He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
— John le Carré
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Source: Wikiquote: "John le Carré" (Quotes, Call for the Dead (1961): Numerous editions. Page numbers here are from the hardcover edition published by Walker & Company in 2004, , first printing )
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About John le Carré
John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), who was a British writer of spy novels and a former spy himself.
About John le Carré
John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), who was a British writer of spy novels and a former spy himself.
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