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If you stick with me, you see this is it. A potter with a crooked foot, but I think if you were with me, I might be something more. I think I’ve never had anything to work for, nothing to believe in, really, and a man needs that more than
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“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
― Possession
― Possession
“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
― The Chronicles of Narnia
― The Chronicles of Narnia
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”
― On the Concept of History
― On the Concept of History
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