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The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man; and standing on the slope and looking across the valley, Valentin beheld the thing which he sought.
“Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― The Masque of the Red Death
― The Masque of the Red Death
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
― The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
― The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
“The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“In a fight with Comanches, dismounting on open ground was like signing your own death warrant. Men on foot against mounted men moving 20-30 miles per hour who could shoot twelve arrows in the time it took to reload a rifle and fire it once was not a fair fight.”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Peter Kersting’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter Kersting’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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