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“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”
― Norwegian by Night
― Norwegian by Night
“clarity that comes from aging—from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allowing the present and the past to take their rightful place at the center of our attention. The”
― Norwegian by Night
― Norwegian by Night
“God made the world, said it was good,” says Sheldon aloud. “Fine. But when did he reappraise?”
― Norwegian by Night
― Norwegian by Night
“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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