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We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] by Hannah Pittard

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“If there was one band that sounded like a white-guy bar, it was Boston.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

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“Besides, who were the people who had suddenly started voting Nazi in the last three years? Misguided ignoramuses for the most part, victims of propaganda, a fluctuating mass that would fall apart at the first disappointment.”
― Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir

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“I believe that civilization’s path is a pendulum that swings both ways, vacillating between hope and despair, success and failure, and all we can do is hang on for dear life. Because it will never, ever stop.”
― Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

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“So it was that in the middle of middle age, Julian found himself greeting each dawn with pessimism, and each evening reaping the dubious reward of having proved himself correct. Each day he felt less and less valued, more and more irrelevant, a progression that looked inexorable.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

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“How different history would be if men were still independent, standing on their own two feet, as in ancient Athens. Today they are yoked to the details of their work and daily timetable, dependent on a thousand little details, cogs in a mechanism they do not control, running steadily on rails and helpless if they become derailed.”
― Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir

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