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‘How old is the lad?’ inquired Barceló, inspecting me out of the corner of his eye. ‘Almost eleven,’ I announced. Barceló flashed a sly smile. ‘In other words, ten. Don’t add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your ...more
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Audie Murphy
“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with the old days. It is in the shamed darting eyes of the defeated. It is in the faces of the little boys who regard our triumphant columns with fear and fascination. And above all it is in the thousands of beaten, dusty soldiers who stream along the roads towards the stockades. Their feet clump wearily, mechanically, hopelessly on the still endless road of war. They move as haggard, gray masses, in which the individual had neither life nor meaning. It is impossible to see in these men the quality that made them stand up and fight like demons out of hell a few shorts months ago.”
Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back

P.G. Wodehouse
“...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

Agatha Christie
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

Walter Isaacson
“What do you think of Adolf Hitler?” Einstein replied, “He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important.”
Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson
“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”
Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

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