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It was a beautiful storm, self-contained as storms often are, hunched far out over the vast water like a blob of blue ink, but it stalled in the middle distance and time just slipped away.
“I never shall forget the waking, next morning; the being cheerful and fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed down by the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“This new male generation, Yusef thought, with its power-bar lunches, vibrating pocket gadgets, and diaper-changing skills, had no sense of architectural aesthetics.”
― In the Time of our History
― In the Time of our History
“How many times had he read the word joy without having experienced what it meant?”
― Crossroads
― Crossroads
“the Writers have been hunted and silenced by the cowards who seek power.”
― In the Time of our History
― In the Time of our History
“The voice of the waves That rise before me Is not so loud As my weeping, That I am left behind. – Thousand-year-old Japanese poem”
― A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
― A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
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