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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

by James Ellroy

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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“Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at all. Witness, for example, the world. It was created out of nothing, and that has made it the worst calamity the world has ever seen.”
― Albert Vigoleis Thelen

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“Fantasy. Lunacy.
All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

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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.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

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“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

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