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“It’s hard to be so good at something nobody wants anymore.”
― William Wharton, The Complete Collection: A Literary Fiction Box Set of Eleven Acclaimed Novels

“There was usually more to an affair like this than just being fired from one’s job. First you’re taught a lesson, then you’re fired – and then you’re arrested.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“Bismarcks. He had pursued clearly seen goals unswervingly; they groped for larger horizons with no clear idea of what they wanted.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

“Once the duty to make war is recognized the secondary duty, to make it successfully, follows.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August