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Le Roman de Raspoutine

by Vladimir Fédorovski

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“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

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“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

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“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

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“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

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