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Hocus Pocus
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There I was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic TV, with virtually no health
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“All donkeys are born wise," was the reply, "so the only school we need is the school of experience. Books are only for those who know nothing, and so are obliged to learn things from other people.”
― The Road to Oz [with Biographical Introduction]
― The Road to Oz [with Biographical Introduction]
“War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“I can only think that the business with the apple must have upset him more than I realised.”
― Last Chance to See
― Last Chance to See
“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myths.”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
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