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The Lords of Discipline: A Classic Coming-of-Age Drama of Honor, Corruption, and Chosen Family at a Military Academy

by Pat Conroy

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The Lords of Discipline: A Classic Coming-of-Age Drama of Honor, Corruption, and Chosen Family at a Military Academy by Pat Conroy

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The adversary who is truly formidable is the one who works within the fortress walls, singing pleasant songs while licking honey off knives.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith

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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that’s the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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