“My hair is beginning to go. I’ll soon be glabrous.”
― The Collected Novels Volume Five: A Burnt-Out Case, The Captain and the Enemy, The Comedians, and The Man Within
― The Collected Novels Volume Five: A Burnt-Out Case, The Captain and the Enemy, The Comedians, and The Man Within
“He was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.”
― Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
― Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
“Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is—how we came to go wrong.”
― The Portent and Other Stories
― The Portent and Other Stories
“Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren’t rational felt a bit like proving that people didn’t have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.’ ”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
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