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“It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.”
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“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep
“Circumstances should never alter principles!”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.”
― Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
― Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
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