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Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti, #5)

by Donna Leon

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Kristine’s Quotes

“if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn’t be any religious people.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

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“Books’ll be back,” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning".”
― Mahatma Gandhi, सत्य के प्रयोग अथवा आत्मकथा

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“When you spend weeks on end close to another person, so close that you know every hiccough, every smell and every scratch on the skin, you either come out of it hating each other or so deep in each other's gut that you can't find a way out. Klara and I were both. Our little love affair had turned into a Siamese-twin relationship. There wasn't any romance in it. There wasn't room enough between us for romance to occur. And yet I knew every inch of Klara, every pore, and every thought, far better than I'd known my own mother. And in the same way: from the womb out. I was surrounded by Klara”
― Frederik pohl, Gateway

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