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Erik Larson
“It is slothful not to compress your thoughts,” he said.”
Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Olga Tokarczuk
“Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.”
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

David Hopen
“It’s the only way of looking at it. Guilt is pointless. Guilt is our way of legitimizing self-cruelty. It’s a basic human tendency to take pleasure in inflicting suffering, but seeing as we shouldn’t inflict suffering upon others—and seeing as we cannot harm the divine, even if we wanted to—what do we do? We turn on ourselves. We make ourselves suffer instead. We feel guilt.”
David Hopen, The Orchard

Yael van der Wouden
“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

Jan Morris
“One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.”
Jan Morris, Allegorizings

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