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In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought.

— John le Carré

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As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996), also in Conversations with John Le Carré (2004), edited by Matthew J. Broccoli and Judith S. Baughman, p. 139

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