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“But even in this card, as in all cards: transience. The faces in the crowd — faces that will watch the every move of the lordly All-Star in the foreground — have been blurred to something like Monet’s lily pads, those hypnotic omens of the inevitable dusk into which we’ll all dissolve. All names, even those of the greatest among us, will eventually unravel to silence.”
― Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
― Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
“But there comes a moment when the mood burns out and everything ends. As a matter of reflex, out of custom, we go on repeating the gestures and words and want everything to be the way it was yesterday, but we know already — and the discovery Appalls us — that this yesterday will never again return. We look around and make another discovery: those who were with us have also changed —something has burned out in them, as well, something has been extinguished.”
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“I'll give you three pieces of advice: never make fun of a millionaire, never hit a cripple, and never have sex with an idiot.”
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“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may belong to somebody else.”
― Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
― Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
“I took it, though, as an evil omen that the deck wasn’t cutting in our favor, and then was certain of it when the notorious Iraqi exile and convicted swindler Ahmed Chalabi charged onto the stage. Frankly, Chalabi was the last thing I needed. A University of Chicago and MIT grad, Chalabi had been convicted in Jordan for bank embezzlement. Resurrected by the CIA after the Gulf War, he now owed his political existence to Washington. It was our F-16s that kept Saddam from grabbing and lynching him; it was the United States he ran to when things got ugly. By rights, Chalabi should have been America’s obedient proxy who slavishly followed my orders. Instead, he treated me as if I were the mad uncle in the attic. He would pretend to listen to me, but as soon as I was out the door, he’d revert to his old conniving self.”
― The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
― The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
Resistance Book Club
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