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Absolutely fabulous. At one point I guessed how the murderer was getting away with their crime, but could not guess who they were until Agatha revealed it at the very end. One of the best murder mysteries of all time.
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Here’s a key to understanding happiness: There are two kinds of happiness—the kind that happens to you and the kind that happens inside of you—and you can be truly happy only if you have the second kind of happiness.
“I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.”
― Glass Sword
― Glass Sword
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
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“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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