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John Irving
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Barbara W. Tuchman
“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens - four dowager and three regnant - and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People

Jeffrey Eugenides
“Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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