The Turks decided to wipe out the Armenians who were Christians. They killed a million people or something like that and drove the rest of them out into the desert and took their property. I suppose it really was a pretty big deal, but I'm
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“Everything in life stands on what has gone before. You do this or that because, at the moment, it seems what to do. You are faced with this or that because of what happened somewhere earlier in your journey of life. What happened earlier depends on what went before that. Who would dispute that nobody stands in a void or a vacuum?”
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
“Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I’ve always been able to make it if I could read.”
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
“But airport security is meant mostly to impress honest citizens and insurance companies, and secondarily to catch hijackers and other crazies. There is no security against a man with his own truck and his own clipboard, and Inter-Air Forwarding was a safe, reliable financial success from the beginning.”
― Dancing Aztecs
― Dancing Aztecs
“If you’ll take a look at the speeches made at the United Nations,” Agent Freedly said, “I think you’ll find they’re mostly ridiculous. But that never stops them from being delivered, translated, printed, and very often believed.”
― Why Me?
― Why Me?
“Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.”
― Dancing Aztecs
― Dancing Aztecs
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