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Kate is Currently Reading

Kate is currently reading

A Man in Full

by Tom Wolfe

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Kate’s Quotes

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

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“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo

tags: desert, religion

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“We cannae just rush in, ye ken."
"Point o' order, Big Man. Ye can just rush in. We always just rush in."
"Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: humor

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“It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

tags: sourcery

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