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“Henry Ray don’t know how to look at nobody else and understand them,” she said, “because he don’t know what he look like himself.”
“In his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very lightest of hearts. MR”
― Regeneration
― Regeneration
“Any explanation of war neurosis must account for the fact that this apparently intensely masculine life of war and danger and hardship produced in men the same disorders that women suffered from in peace. So”
― Regeneration
― Regeneration
“In some ways the experience of these young men paralleled the experience of the very old. They looked back on intense memories and felt lonely because there was nobody left alive who’d been there.”
― Regeneration
― Regeneration
“Anna remembers something Licinius said: that a story is a way of stretching time.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.”
― Regeneration
― Regeneration
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