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“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in street look not just indeferent but ugly...perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant" the breathing method”
― The Body
― The Body
“When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad. History is filled with chilling examples”
― The House at the End of the World
― The House at the End of the World
“Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.”
― Sycamore Row
― Sycamore Row
“Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price”
― A Wanted Man
― A Wanted Man
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