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“Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.”
― The Secret Magdalene
― The Secret Magdalene
“I'll wave no more flags for home. No tears for Mother. Nobody ever died for apple pie.”
― The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
― The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
“That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.”
― The Devil's Trinity
― The Devil's Trinity
“Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.”
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing, this machine for gripping, this fleshy spider on the end of her arm, came to be hers, entirely at her command. Or did it have some little life of its own? She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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