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"First impression, I am reminded of Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler." — Jul 20, 2026 01:05PM
"First impression, I am reminded of Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler." — Jul 20, 2026 01:05PM
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
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“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
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“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
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