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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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“I have dickered over trinkets with malnourished children. I have learned what it is to become afraid of one's own cabin toilet. I have now heard—and am powerless to describe—reggae elevator music.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

tags: brilliance, humor, travel

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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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“What a lark! What a plunge!”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: first-lines

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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing

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“What you need is some rich relation to leave you a fortune unexpectedly, so that you can dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who slighted you, go abroad, and come home as my lady something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Alcott - Little Women. Part 1 & 2: English Edition. Little Women Book 1 & 2 (Little Women & Good Wives)

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