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I would offer you coffee Cross, but the sugar would attract too many flies.

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By: Paul Scofield
Characters: Sergei Zharkov
From: Scorpio
Genres: Action | Drama | Spy and Espionage | Thrillers

Context:
Paul Scofield (as Russian Agent Sergei Zharkov) is speaking to Burt Lancaster (as Cross), discussing whether Lancaster should defect, after learning the CIA has a contract out on Cross' life.