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Eventually, they had to confront the fact that reality had an inescapable anti-war bias. So they rejected the official progress reports and reported what they saw, but that did not turn the public against the war.
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
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On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
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Jeff Mattison’s 2025 Year in Books
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