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“Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched.”
― Changing Cadence: Meditations on Life, Family and Country from a Leather Bicycle Seat
― Changing Cadence: Meditations on Life, Family and Country from a Leather Bicycle Seat
“Please allow me a second chance at a first impression”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“For after all, if attentiveness should be measured in minutes and discipline measured in hours, then indomitability must be measured in years. Or, if philosophical investigations are not to your taste, then let us simply agree that the wise man celebrates what he can.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“It was Inspector Hewitt. “You’ve got goose-bumps,” he said, looking at me attentively. “Best go sit in the car.” He had already reached the far side of the bridge before he turned back. “There’s a blanket in the boot,” he said, and then vanished in the shadows. I felt my temper rising. Here was this man—a man in an ordinary business suit, without so much as a badge on his shoulder—dismissing me from the scene of a crime that I had come to think of as my very own. After all, hadn’t I been the first to discover it? Had Marie Curie been dismissed after discovering polonium? Or radium? Had someone told her to run along? It simply wasn’t fair.”
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