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Lisa Rowe
https://www.goodreads.com/txvoodoo
“Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”
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“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
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“All his depths were on the surface.”
― Dictator
― Dictator
“When they speak, everything else stops. Nobody dares interrupt. Everyone sits looking rapt, hanging on these words of wisdom even while they are wondering what the flowing tirade really means. Clearly it is their own inadequacy if they are not transported into astounding inspiration by the demagogue’s words of wisdom, so many words, so long in the delivery.… No one can leave.”
― Invitation to Die: A Novella of Ancient Rome
― Invitation to Die: A Novella of Ancient Rome
“Dictators love to talk. It is remarkable how men who wield excessive sole power will be consistent in this: Given a captive audience, they all drone on for hours. And hours. The human brain can only concentrate for twenty minutes, ask any teacher. Dictators have rarely been despatched on a training course to learn that simple fact. Many dictators are completely untrained; tyranny comes to them naturally.”
― Invitation to Die: A Novella of Ancient Rome
― Invitation to Die: A Novella of Ancient Rome
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