Rex Mclaen

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Rex’s Quotes

“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“حب الرجل ينقلب إلى أنقاض متى اطمأن إلى حب المرأة”
― ليو تولستوي, آنّا كارنينا

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“You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

tags: alexander

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“They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.”
― Emily Bronte

tags: nice

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“I had covered wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and elsewhere, but the work had started to feel routine. I wanted to leave the journalistic herd, to find a project that would both daunt and inspire me. Facing down the Congo was just such a project.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

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