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The force, the mass, the bravery and endurance of Mother Russia had still to be thrown into the scales. But so far as strategy, policy, foresight, competence are arbiters Stalin and his commissars showed themselves at this moment the most
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“Think a new thought, they sometimes tell themselves. The thoughts you have in orbit are so grandiose and old. Think a new one, a completely fresh unthought one. But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“There were so many things to be done in the process of cleaning up the mess that Caligula had left behind him—nearly four years of misrule—that it makes my head swim even now to think of it.”
― Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina
― Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina
“I’ve been so young for so long and so old for longer—so heart-wrinkled and naive all at once.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Everything but girls doing the hootchie-koo? Or were you thinking of that, too?”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“There was a band from Austin called The Jokers, and they were really laying it down.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
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