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“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“There is no intoxicant more dangerous than the passion of love; intoxicating both the holder and the beholder.”
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“If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.”
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“It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“To the Congolese (including Anatole himself, he confessed) it seems odd that if one man gets fifty votes and the other gets forty-nine, the first one wins altogether and the second one plumb loses. That means almost half the people will be unhappy, and according to Anatole, in a village that’s left halfway unhappy you haven’t heard the end of it. There is sure to be trouble somewhere down the line.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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