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Halfway through. I have already been caught off guard by the surprises Richard Nell has in store for the reader. So far, no second book syndrome here. I wanted to thank Richard, who is both kind and brave, for sharing his work with me.
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“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
― Gardens of the Moon
― Gardens of the Moon
“The world is made of stories, which bind us all together, and impossible stories are the best of all, for they bind us in impossible ways.”
― The Monster Baru Cormorant
― The Monster Baru Cormorant
“The oppression we all face is guarded by what we are unwilling to question.”
― The Dragon's Den
― The Dragon's Den
“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history”
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“In my native valley of the middle Dniester, gentry spoke Polish, peasants — Ukrainian, officials — Russian with the Odessa accent, merchants — Jewish, carpenters and joiners — being Filippians and Old Believers — Russian with the Novogrod accent, the kabanists spoke in their own dialect. Additionally, in the same area there were also villages of Polish-speaking noblemen, and nobles who spoke Ukrainian, Moldovan villages speaking in Romanian; Gypsies speaking in Gypsy, Turks were no longer there, but in Khotyn, on the other side of the Dniester and in Kamieniec, their minarets were still standing...All these shades of nationality and languages were also in a semi-fluid state. Sons of Poles sometimes became Ukrainians, sons of Germans and French — Poles. In Odessa, unusual things happened: the Greeks became Russians, Poles were seen joining Soyuz Russkavo Naroda. Even stranger combinations arose from mixed marriages. ‘If a Pole marries a Russian woman,’ my father used to say, ‘their children are usually Ukrainians or Lithuanians’.”
― W dolinie Dniestru. Pisma o Ukrainie
― W dolinie Dniestru. Pisma o Ukrainie
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