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Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees.
“Even with all the windows open, the room smells of stale beer and soot, and the air is permeated with the acrid melancholy of leaving mixed with the pungent anticipation of travel.”
― A Train to Moscow
― A Train to Moscow
“There is no doubt in her mind that Kolya knew about the life of make-believe, the life of art.”
― A Train to Moscow
― A Train to Moscow
“He was an Irishman. Few people remember—and I’m a full-blooded Irishman—few people remember the time in America where there were signs all over that said, No Irish Need Apply. Duffy knew that history, so as Irish people, we were sensitive to people who were being discriminated against,” he explained.”
― Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
― Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
“To their right, behind a row of nearer peaks, stood Mont Blanc, the tallest in Western Europe—a monument to those things humans can crawl their way up but not alter.”
― Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
― Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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