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"Started reading this a long time ago I forget when. It was pretty good but then it started to drag and I totally stalled out. With all due respect to the great man, after fleeing slavery in his early life, in his later life he’s basically a journalist and a pundit and the action drags a bit." — Jan 01, 2022 05:24AM
"Started reading this a long time ago I forget when. It was pretty good but then it started to drag and I totally stalled out. With all due respect to the great man, after fleeing slavery in his early life, in his later life he’s basically a journalist and a pundit and the action drags a bit." — Jan 01, 2022 05:24AM
To which sobersides Howard returned his one recorded wisecrack: “There is one thing we can do, General; we can buy our gloves together.” Kearny smiled gaily and cried, “Sure enough,” and the two men had shaken on it with the hands they had
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“Simone de Beauvoir, writing on the same subject, concurred: “To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses’ is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simply an all-pervasive system.”24”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Do you know why they say, ‘There’s no smoke without fire?’ It’s not just to give encouragement to people who like fires.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Latimer says, ‘Confession is not a sacrament. Show me where Christ ordained it.’ Cranmer says, ‘You will not get the king to agree.’ Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife’s head does not arise every year.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“In the night I was asleep,’ Christophe says. ‘It was some old ghost, I suppose.’ ‘Surely not,’ Riche says. ‘I never heard of ghosts that walk in June.’ There’s something in that. It was the veiled ladies—living women, as far as one knows—who attended him, till dawn came and they faded into the wall. He remembers the dappling of their garments, the streaks of darkness where they had wiped the queen’s blood on their robes.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Carew was always a partisan of my wife. I mean, of Katherine. Then of Mary, crying up her rights.’ Henry is thoughtful. ‘Carew’s wife is still a beautiful woman.’ He almost drops his papers. He imagines the words dragged out of him: Majesty, I know you had to do with Eliza Bryan in your young days, but you cannot order a man’s death and then marry his widow. King David sent Uriah into battle to be killed: thereafter, he impregnated Bathsheba, who gave birth to a dying child. He thinks, somebody else will have to tell him. Lord Audley. Fitz. I have had enough of refraining him from what will hurt him, slapping away his hand like a nursemaid.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
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