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“Unhappily, it depends upon the attitude of a single submarine commander whether America will or will not declare war.”
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
― Dragon Tears
― Dragon Tears
“The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.”
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
“You have to jump around in time to get the facts right. Linear chronology makes for good popular storytelling, but it doesn’t always capture the deep causes that drive history. Some causes are proximate, in the moment. Some are echoes of distant shock waves, still reverberating a hundred—or a thousand—years later.”
― Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
― Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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