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“For instance, the first preserved example of Greek alphabetic writing, scratched onto an Athenian wine jug of about 740 B.C., is a line of poetry announcing a dancing contest: ‘Whoever of all dancers performs most nimbly will win this vase as a prize.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“Let it at the very least be said, if it ever comes to be said, if there is ever anyone in some remote future interested to know the way we lived, that in this farthest outpost of the Empire of light there existed one man who in his heart was not a barbarian.”
― Waiting for the Barbarians
― Waiting for the Barbarians
“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can’t help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
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