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"Vol3: I rather liked the dynamic between Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou in this one, but the detective storyline bored me a bit." — Jul 13, 2024 03:23AM
"Vol3: I rather liked the dynamic between Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou in this one, but the detective storyline bored me a bit." — Jul 13, 2024 03:23AM
“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity to pay a hundred thousand dollars or more for a painting by an Italian three centuries dead. And he capped this insult by giving paintings to museums for the spiritual elevation of the poor. The museums were closed on Sundays.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“This invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
― Wintersmith
― Wintersmith
“It is a fact that any rich man, unless he is a Jew, has less to fear from Fascism than from either Communism or democratic Socialism.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
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