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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
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“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
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“The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
from "Disappearance of Literature”
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from "Disappearance of Literature”
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Nancy’s 2024 Year in Books
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167 books
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158 books
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