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“I’ve probably talked to more journalists than anybody on Earth about MLM. And what I often found was that, in the who, what, when, where, and why, the what would always get lost. They don’t know it has a beginning. So it lives in myth and ...more
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“(As he once told her, “a long closely connected train of reasoning is like a beautiful strain of music.”)”
Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

“Both had lost parents at an early age, and while Albert did not have a rift with his father as Victoria did with her mother, both ached for an idyllic domesticity they had dreamed of as children.”
Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

“The charge of the Light Brigade was forever memorialized as a moment of glorious sacrifice, as needless slaughters ordered by shortsighted generals so often are.”
Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Antonio Iturbe
“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

Laurence Gonzales
“Helping someone else is the best way to ensure your own survival. It takes you out of yourself. It helps you to rise above your fears. Now you’re a rescuer, not a victim. And seeing how your leadership and skill buoy others up gives you more focus and energy to persevere. The cycle reinforces itself: You buoy them up, and their response buoys you up. Many people who survive alone report that they were doing it for someone else (a wife, boyfriend, mother, son) back home.”
Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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