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“Signing off on the daily execution lists, Stalin was heard to remark: “Who is going to remember this riffraff in ten, twenty years’ time? No one.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

“They were washed and in the middle of good deep mugs of beer when Mr. Butterbur and Nob came in again. In a twinkling the table was laid. There was hot soup, cold meats, a blackberry tart, new loaves, slabs of butter, and half a ripe cheese: good plain food, as good as the Shire could show, and homelike enough to dispel the last of Sam’s misgivings (already much relieved by the excellence of the beer).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“It was a small flat, a sitting room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen, and it was an example of how careless people can be when they live alone,”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“By the 1970s, she had come to the realization, in her words, “that what we thought was socialism was fatally flawed.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy