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He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. —Benjamin Franklin
“I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence”
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
“Sunshine - sunshine! tedious, changeless, monotonous. Not that discreet English Sunshine which varies its charm with clouds, with rainbows, with golden mist... here the sun has ceased trying to please so venerable a world.”
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
“Well, I’m sorry. But if ever you needed proof that the Bible was written by a man, there you have”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“After a while, when he finished telling his stories, they broke bread to bind their friendship and shared salt as a promise of his tribe’s protection.”
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
“Then she laughed out loud and hugged him tight with both arms. She smelled like pine trees and lichens and hot sand. How odd, thought Roger, that after all, this is what it took - not a flock of scarlet ibises or golden-crowned kinglets, but just the names of chicken, hovering in the air like the sulpher butterflies at the dump.”
― Quite a Year for Plums
― Quite a Year for Plums
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