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This Is Where the Serpent Lives

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer.”
― Lloyd George

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“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”
― Boris Johnson

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