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“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
― Pompeii
― Pompeii
“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.”
― Fatherland
― Fatherland
“Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they'll simply issue us with air tickets and we'll do whatever we're told”
― The Ghost
― The Ghost
“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”
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“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”
― The Ghost
― The Ghost
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