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I'm really liking this book right now. Beautiful lyrical prose and wonderful mood. It is often listed as a middle school book, which I suppose it could be, considering the length. The themese it explores are so much more than that though, exploring t
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“I want to be a cold-blooded historian, not one who is holding a blazing torch. Let time be the judge. Time is just, but only in the long term—not in the short term. The time we won’t live to see, which will be free of our prejudices.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“Every head is the head of an artist, because it can see and hold beauty if it's only once in its life.”
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“One good woman more in the world is worth every single unicorn gone.”
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“Witnesses can be manipulated, too. They’re not robots. They are manipulated by television, newspapers, friends, corporate interests…Who has the real truth? As far as I understand, the truth is something that’s sought out by specially trained experts: judges, scholars, priests. Everyone else is ruled by ambition and emotions. [A pause.] I’ve read your books…You shouldn’t put so much stock in what people say, in human truth…History records the lives of ideas. People don’t write it, time does. Human truth is just a nail that everybody hangs their hats on.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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