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“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone. Goddamn it hurts.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“That was the only thing that had got him through the four years of blood and madness: Know exactly where your gun is when you doze for ten minutes in your dugout; always check your gas mask; see that your men have understood their orders to the letter. You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation" p. 33”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“As learnèd commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.”
― Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary
In Homer more than Homer knew.”
― Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary
“Cui Pyrrhus: 'Referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis
Pelidae genitori; illi mea tristia facta
degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
Nunc morere.”
― The Aeneid (Translated): Latin and English
Pelidae genitori; illi mea tristia facta
degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
Nunc morere.”
― The Aeneid (Translated): Latin and English
“The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
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