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This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn’t gambling, he’s cheating.
“History is concerned solely with the facts; emotions are outside of its realm of interest. In fact, it’s considered improper to admit feelings into history. But I look at the world as a writer and not a historian. I am fascinated by people.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“The first thing to go was friendship…Suddenly, everyone was too busy, they had to go out and make money.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.”
― John Adams
― John Adams
“My feelings are my feelings, whether they feel good or hurt, I don’t want to be unplugged from myself.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all the same that you’re a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you’re a stranger... and a lonely stranger.”
― The Three Sisters
― The Three Sisters
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