“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
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“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
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“Existing, period – that is what drives men to irrational acts.”
― Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
― Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
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