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Barbara W. Tuchman
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.”
Barbara W. Tuchman

Eric Schlosser
“Nuclear weapons may well have made deliberate war less likely,” Sagan now thought, “but the complex and tightly coupled nuclear arsenal we have constructed has simultaneously made accidental war more likely.” Researching The Limits of Safety left him feeling pessimistic about our ability to control high-risk technologies. The fact that a catastrophic accident with a nuclear weapon has never occurred, Sagan wrote, can be explained less by “good design than good fortune.”
Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Dave Eggers
“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”
Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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Max Brooks
“You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler”
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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