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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Carrie Fisher

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

William Davenant

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Aldrich Ames

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Carrie Fisher

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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

William Davenant

58% of people like this quote

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

John Perkins

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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

William Hull

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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

Buffalo Bill

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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

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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

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