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He had an animal instinct for sensing the direction of the wind. But if you paid close attention to what he was saying or what he had written, you knew that his words lacked consistency. They reflected no single worldview based on profound
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“This is most authentic of dying old U.S. culture, a rare retained artifact carrying flavor of bygone halcyon day.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“For a hundred years the Ottoman Empire, called the “Sick Man” of Europe, had been considered moribund by the hovering European powers who were waiting to fall upon the carcass.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“Whatever our lot may be, August 4, 1914, will remain for all eternity one of Germany’s greatest days!”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed; and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it. All its men were valorous and all its dead heroes.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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