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there is the flag that hangs in every classroom, dangling just over her left shoulder like a raised axe.
“Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is.... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care--with no one there to see or cheer.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.”
― Surfacing
― Surfacing
“Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it’s interesting.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
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