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“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Lenin found music depressing.
Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music.
Khrushchev despised music.
Which is the worst for a composer?”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“I'm so small,” said the mole. “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“It had become a valley of absurdities, my homeland.”
― Christian Kracht, Eurotrash