like affecting an accent without realizing it. I was writing about Russians, so I wrote in the style that I remembered as Russian. I still write the Rostnikov tales in this style, which goes against the grain of much contemporary Soviet
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“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
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Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
“Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
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Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something mo ...more
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