Michael Gainey
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“You don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in, you know?”
“In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. —Robert Nisbet”
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“That is the one thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He will fulfil his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Happy wife, happy life takes on a whole new meaning when your other half is an indescribable cosmic horror.”
― This Inevitable Ruin
― This Inevitable Ruin
“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
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