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“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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“Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect word, the exquisite or incisive phrase, or exactly the right tone, he was the best. And when it came to delivery, he had no peer.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: defeat, destroy, diplomacy, hidden-secrets, history, insight, insightful, strategies, truth, war

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“What's the bee in your bonnet? Seems to be some kind of idealism.”
― Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

tags: idealism

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“Frank Churchill was waiting for her when she arrived. He had now been a convenient sixth with their party on multiple occasions, escorting Jane following the Campbells and Dixons, and it seemed so natural as he greeted them and slipped into place as they entered the hall. “Have a care, you are sparkling tonight,” he murmured under his breath. “Almost as if you had recently become engaged to the love of your life.”
Jane did not dare look at him as she smiled. If she did, the entire world would know their secret.”
― Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

tags: fiction, fiction-writing, historical, history, love, recency, romance

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