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Claire lived by the firm moral philosophy that one could never have too many pockets, too many books, or too much tea.
“Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.”4”
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
“These doors will sing. Silent siren songs for those who seek what lies behind them. For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Sometimes I feel there are doors lurking in the creases of every sentence, with periods for knobs and verbs for hinges.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Why does the word “queue” have not only four consecutive silent letters, which is bad enough, but also the same ones repeated? What, they weren’t silent enough the first time through?”
― Look Closer
― Look Closer
“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn’t as if being a woman wasn’t a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homicide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren’t any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.”
― Bet Me
― Bet Me
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