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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

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Book cover for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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But there’s nothing for you to worry about. She is not being held against her will. I mean, this is not a movie or a novel. We can’t really do that sort of thing.”

Breaking the 4th wall a bit.

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Tomas’s Quotes

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

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“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: deceit

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“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
― Bill Gates

tags: science

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“There was no way I could contemplate taking the England job. Can you imagine me doing that? A Scotsman? I always joked that I would take the position and relegate them: make them the 150th rated country in the world, with Scotland 149.”
― Alex Ferguson, ALEX FERGUSON: My Autobiography: The Sensational Million Copy Number One Bestseller

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