My Antonia
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In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
“Queen Elizabeth, in a much-cited quote, faithfully bathed once a month “whether she needs it or no.”
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Tell me yourself—rather than suffering because of daughters, as Tevye has, is it not a thousand times better to lie in the ground and bake bagels?”
― Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son
― Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son
“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“But I had at least hoped to find some decent people around Hitler. I am horrified to discover that the whole gang is nothing but a horde of criminals and cowards.” Fromm”
― In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
― In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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