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“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
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“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
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“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
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“This was the west and we were westerners, and no bureaucrat in Washington was going to regulate what our companies did in our state. So, we gulped down hot smog and pretended like we enjoyed it because we were too fucking stupid to look out for our own best interests.”
― Walking Alone: Short Stories
― Walking Alone: Short Stories
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Join bestselling author Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child for a lively discussion in celebration of their latest Pendergast novel Two Graves. The author ...more
Severed Souls
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Nordian is a world that only in dreams is glimpsed the moment when sweet dreams become nightmares. Some say it is a darkness we carry it with us in ou ...more
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