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“Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.”
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“and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.”
― Billy Budd, Sailor
― Billy Budd, Sailor
“For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.”
― The Prague Cemetery
― The Prague Cemetery
“A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a large nose, thin face and deep-set eyes, he looks like the kind of Harvard teaching assistant who carries a slide ruler strapped to his belt. But he is skillful with fragile egos, and also the perfect counterpoint to Bradlee. Bradlee is more like Woodward: he wants hard information first and is impatient with theories.
-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
― All the President’s Men
-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
― All the President’s Men
Fran’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Fran’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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