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Matthew said nothing. Silence, he’d found, was an ally and a weapon.
“Revolutions closely resemble romantic dramas: the ridiculous and the sublime are mixed so inextricably together that we are often unsure how to judge men who seem to be at one and the same time buffoons and heroes.”
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“He is thirty-two, and maybe now he can feel the dread that strikes you at that age—a realization that the years really can slip away, like all those dreams of revolution, without leaving a trace. And his response to all that weight is incredible: He picks up a book.”
― The Message
― The Message
“But when you live as we have, among a people whose humanity is ever in doubt, even the small and particular—especially the small and particular—becomes political.”
― The Message
― The Message
“A belief in genius is a large part of what plagues us, and I have found that people widely praised for the power of their intellect are as likely to illuminate as they are to confound.”
― The Message
― The Message
“I beseech you…think it possible that you may be mistaken.”
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For readers who, like me, love both of Donna Tartt's novels, The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002) and may be wondering what happened ...more
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