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"I have to read 42 pages of this/day to finish it by my program in January and idk how I’m going to manage this" — Dec 22, 2025 07:13PM
"I have to read 42 pages of this/day to finish it by my program in January and idk how I’m going to manage this" — Dec 22, 2025 07:13PM
“It's easy to distance ourselves from the past and write 'the civil war lasted four years' and forget how unbearable those four years were for the people of Rome while half the men were off killing one another, with no knowledge of when it would end. Four years is a long time in the lives of humans.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
“Just as people tailor their stories to serve their interests - revising, erasing, embroidering - so do nations.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again.”
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