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“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Just as all English speakers can understand one another provided a dash of goodwill is thrown into the mix, so too can Serbs, Montenegrins, Bosnians, and Croats. But if your family was massacred by your neighbour's army, goodwill is hard to find.”
― Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
― Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
“On a scale from one to ‘invade Russia in winter,’ how stupid is this plan?”
― Artemis
― Artemis
“God damn it! I yelled to him. Will you stop wining about your problems during my murder!”
― Artemis
― Artemis
“He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness.”
― Velvet Was the Night
― Velvet Was the Night
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