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Reaper Man (Discworld, #11)

by Terry Pratchett

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Aleksey’s Quotes

“...but among us Russians there's no knowing what is sullenness and what is sleepiness.”
― Ivan Turgenev, A Sportman's Sketches

tags: russians

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“When she had looked at Dad she had seen the baby, the child, the adolescent, the young man; the whole of his character and all of his qualities were contained in that one look, and if he was in such a drunken state that he shat his pants while lying on her sofa, the moment was so brief and she so old that it would not, compared with all the immense span of time together that she had stored, have had enough weight to become the image that counted.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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“The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

tags: difference, everybody-breaks-a-glass, nobody, shoes

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“It's all right," she said. "It's all right." That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

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“For the lesson of such stories is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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