Jack

“One little shot during a card game in Arkansas had started things happening—things he couldn’t see the end of.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“Let us first of all and before all be kind, then honest, and then—let us never forget one another.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“And have you noticed, Smurov, that in the middle of winter, when there are fifteen or even eighteen degrees of frost, it doesn’t seem as cold as it does now, for example, in the beginning of winter, if there’s suddenly an unexpected cold snap, like now, of twelve degrees, especially when there isn’t much snow. It means people aren’t used to it yet. Everything is habit with people, everything, even state and political relations. Habit is the chief motive force.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov