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This Is The Way The World Ends

by James K. Morrow

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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

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He began to read more widely, collecting books that he would never have been permitted to own in Russia: the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Maximov and George Orwell, and Western histories that exposed the full horror of ...more

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“I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
― Mark Twain

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“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons.”
― Lynda Renham, Coconuts and Wonderbras

tags: life-lessons

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“Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”
― Anatoli Rybakov, Children of the Arbat

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“You never truly know who you are until you get really, deeply hurt.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Hollow Ones

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