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“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― The Long Fall
― The Long Fall
“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”
― Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
― Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
“I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn’t a person anymore; it’s just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone—off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the case. You just don’t care. It’s what you have.”
― Old Man's War
― Old Man's War
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