The Quiet American
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This way.
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"Not that easy to remain uninvolved. "
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I had hidden for so long
behind a typewriter.

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What we found there,
what we saw, in Phat Diem.

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What did that do?
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To his zeal, to my detachment?
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The dead are not involved.
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The dead have no zeal.
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They are lying in wait.
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You see them, all their tenderness,
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and then they haunt you.
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- Communists?
- This is not the work of French soldiers.

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It doesn't make sense.
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The communists don't kill townspeople.
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- It is not in their interest.
- Maybe another faction.

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There are so many of them.
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Each with their own army.
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What's that book you're always reading?
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York Harding.
The Dangers To Democracy.

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- An American?
- Yeah.

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He was out here a couple of years back.
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- Was he here long?
- I don't know.

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I heard him lecture once.
Joe actually met him.

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He put forward the idea
of a third force to run Vietnam.

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- Not the communists and not the French.
- Not the Americans?

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No. We're not colonialists.
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Something that could
really help these people.

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- You have a gun, either of you?
- No.

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They shall attack again tonight.
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You don't want to be taken alive.
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Believe me.

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