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“After all, the right stuff was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life (by riding on top of a Redstone or Atlas rocket). Any fool could do that (and many fools would no doubt volunteer, given the opportunity), just as any fool could throw his life away in the process. No, the idea (as all pilots understood) was that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back at the last yawning moment—but how in the name of God could you either hang it out or haul it back if you were a lab animal sealed in a pod? Every”
― The Right Stuff
― The Right Stuff
“Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.”
― My Mortal Enemy
― My Mortal Enemy
“I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“Da settembre il villaggio non era più abituato a sentire passi, risate, voci giovanili; era stordito, sopraffatto dal rumore crescente che saliva da quella marea di uniformi verdi, da quell'odore di corpi sani, di carne giovane, e soprattutto dai suoni di quella lingua straniera. I tedeschi invadevano le case, i negozi, i caffè. I loro stivali risuonavano sui pavimenti rossi delle cucine. Chiedevano da mangiare, da bere. Passando accarezzavano i bambini. Gesticolavano, cantavano, ridevano alle donne. La loro aria felice, la loro ebbrezza da conquistatori, quella febbre, quella follia, quell'entusiasmo misto a una sorta di stupore, come se loro stessi non riuscissero a credere a quanto stava accadendo, tutto questo produceva una tale tensione, era così eccitante che i vinti erano portati a dimenticare per qualche attimo il proprio dolore e il proprio rancore.”
― Suite Française
― Suite Française
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