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“Between Holberger and Veres there exists a kind of technical understanding that outruns the powers of speech. Most Hardy Boys share this specialist’s ESP to some degree. It’s a feeling that some good chess players say they share with worthy opponents, a kind of mind reading—what Holberger calls being “in sync.”
― The Soul of A New Machine
― The Soul of A New Machine
“...although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated,...”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“It was easy to make the obvious leap that the money was supposed to be my fee for whatever Lillian Holler wanted to expose. Sometimes my clients come with prepayment. I still questioned why she had picked me and how she had found me. But she was a wealthy woman and wealthy women have ways of finding out whatever it is they want to know.”
― Treacherous Estate
― Treacherous Estate
“Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …”
― Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
― Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
“courage is the gift of character”
― Euripides V
― Euripides V
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