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• Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

  Julia Quinn

  Hurt, Jam, Lines

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• The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.

  Karen Chance

  Men, Temptation, Taste

  Karen Chance (2006). “Touch the Dark”, p.226, Penguin

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• I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory." Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?" No sir!" Then wonderful, welcome back!

  Johnny Depp

  Cat, Cad, Welcome

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• ...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Doors, World

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.145, University of Illinois Press

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• And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

  Ally Carter

  Enemy, Allies, Common

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• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Identity, Ordinary

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• Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Police, Criminals

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• I spy with my little eye a great story.

  John Green

  Eye, Stories, Littles

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.277, A&C Black

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• Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. "How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.

  Ally Carter

  Use, Pieces, Paper

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• I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.

  Adam Rex

  Eye, Sausage, Littles

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.73, A&C Black

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• You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Country, Sleep

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• There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

  Daniel Handler

  Order, Secret, Savages

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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• All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Years, Challenges

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Jobs, Needs, Littles

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

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• If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Military, War

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• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Life, Summer, Wise

  Sir William Davenant, “To A Mistress Dying”

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• Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Talking

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.71, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Numbers, Mouths, Might

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool. I go to a school for spies.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Teenage, School

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

  John le Carre

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

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• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

  John le Carre

  Average, People, Daily Life

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• I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

  Jackie Chan

  Play, Special, Want

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• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  Daniel Craig

  Would Be, Want, One Thing

  Interview with Sam Taylor-Wood, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Television, Watches

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