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Eukodol is like a combination of junk and cocaine. Trust the Germans to concoct some truly awful shit.
- William Burroughs

Pg 53

In every aspect of the attack, which led to the deaths of of 100,000 Polish soldiers and, by the end of the year, 60,000 Polish civilians, the drug helped the aggressors to work "without any sign of tiredness until the end of the mission."

Pg 10

The city on the Spree became synonymous with moral reprehensibility. When Germany currency collapsed -- in autumn of 1923 one U.S. dollar was worth 4.2 billion marks -- all moral values seemed t o plummet with it as well.

Pg 141

Television does not ban books, it simply displaces them.

Pg 245

Only one American hero was to emerge from what happened at Fort Washington. She was Margaret Corbin, the wife of a Pennsylvania soldier, John Corbin, who had gone into battle at her husband's side, and when he was killed, stepped into his place, to load and fire a cannon, until she fell wounded, nearly losing one arm.

Pg 134

In a matter of hours, forty-five ships had dropped anchor inside Sandy Hook in the Lower Bay, ten miles beyond the Narrows. To a Pennsylvania rifleman closer at hand their masts looked like a forest of trimmed pine trees. "I declare that I thought all London was afloat."

Pg 108

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. - Walter Lippmann

Pg 220

"You don't know what it is," she says. "Thank God you will never know what a mother feels."
"There are lots of women in this world no better than her," I says.
"But they are not my daughters," she says. "It's not myself," she says. "I'd gladly take her back, sins and all, because she is my flesh and blood. It's for Quentin's sake."