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“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river.”
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“His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world”
― Motherless Brooklyn
― Motherless Brooklyn
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“As the crowd stomps the floor for a curtain call, we sneak through the back door and make off like superheroes.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”
― Leviathan Wakes
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”
― Leviathan Wakes
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