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“You never know in life. Sometimes people can mean what they say.”
― China
― China
“Shuggie heard the nurse say to a male attendant that she thought for sure Agnes was a working girl. “She is not,” said Shuggie, quite proudly. “My mother has never worked a day in her life. She’s far too good-looking for that.” The matted mink coat gave her an air of superiority, and her black strappy heels clacked out a slurred beat on the long marble hallway.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“Het unieke van de Europese beschaving is dat deze wakker gekuste rede vervolgens in het reine moest zien te komen met een openbaring die de absolute waarheid pretendeerde te zijn. Wat dat betreft is het epicentrum van de Europese geschiedenis gelegen in de verhandelingen van de kerkvaders, die zich de opdracht hadden gesteld om hun ongeloofwaardige geloof met redeneringen van surrealistische schoonheid salonfähig te maken voor de heidense intelligentsia door het in harmonie te brengen met de illustere verworvenheden van de Griekse filosofie.”
― Grand Hotel Europa
― Grand Hotel Europa
“Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been.”
― Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
― Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
“one of his grandfather’s old sayings occurred to him: wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills”
― The Institute
― The Institute
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