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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich

Dashiell Hammett
“How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober.”
Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

Paul Auster
“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life in a glass monastery - removed from the world of human affairs even as it continued to whirl around you on all sides. To be a journalist meant you could never be the person who tossed the brick through the window that started the revolution. You could only watch the man toss the brick, you could try to understand why he had tossed the brick, you could explain to others what significance the brick had in starting the revolution, but you yourself could never toss the brick or even stand in the mob that was urging the man to throw it.”
Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

Terry Pratchett
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
tags: war

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

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