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“It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible. It's believing in reality that does us in every time.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“I am called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn: Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.”
― American Gods
― American Gods

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
― My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
― My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
“Through the whole epoch of her prosperity, through the long Olympiads of her decay, through centuries after her fall, Athens looked back on the day of Marathon as the brightest of her national existence.”
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

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