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  1. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    There wasn't any
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  2. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    When you've known someone only briefly, even if intensely, death comes as a shock, but not a particularly long or deep one. After all, there was no time for the person in question to become woven tightly into the fabric of your life. It's surprising, even a little disillusioning, how quickly you get over it, how quickly the memory of what you might have shared with someone comes to seem distant, improbable, like something that might have happened to someone you know but not to you yourself.
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  3. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    War is a part of human nature, and we Japanese are human. But we have never fought, we have certainly never built weapons of mass destruction, to convince the world of the rightness of an idea. It took America and its bastard twin, communism, to do that." He
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  4. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It
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  5. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.
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  6. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The
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  7. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.
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  8. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.
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  9. Barry Eisler _ A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead."
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