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Military tactics and hardware are all well and good, but they are quite useless if one has lost the confidence of the population among whom one is fighting.”
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else.
You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.”
― Fight Club
You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.”
― Fight Club
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
Ask Denise Mina - Thursday, March 14th!
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Join us on Thursday, March 14th for a special discussion with author Denise Mina! Denise will be discussing her work, including her most recent book G ...more
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