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"Aesthetically brilliant. Beyond that, not sure." — Sep 10, 2012 05:23PM
"Aesthetically brilliant. Beyond that, not sure." — Sep 10, 2012 05:23PM
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"Finished, working on a review but there's quite a bit to be said about this one." — Mar 14, 2010 04:54PM
"Finished, working on a review but there's quite a bit to be said about this one." — Mar 14, 2010 04:54PM
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"On the brink of the Great War, which means it's time to reread The Guns of August." — May 22, 2011 01:13PM
"On the brink of the Great War, which means it's time to reread The Guns of August." — May 22, 2011 01:13PM


“He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.”
― A Soldier of the Great War
― A Soldier of the Great War

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
― Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”
― Suttree
― Suttree

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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