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This book is such a delight. What a joy to read it out loud.

“The only thing the sport gives us is moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments.”

“Too often, when a man of Monty Bodkin’s mental powers is plunged in thought, nothing happens at all. The machinery just whirrs for a while, and that is the end of it.”

“A good conscience, health of body, and an honorable trade, are the best and surest fortune that we can have on earth.”

“I am called Jim. I have yet to choose a name.“

“Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.”

“Poetry simultaneously addresses our intellect and our physical senses, our emotions, imagination, intuition, and memory without asking us to divide them.”

“It’s never too late to be a better man.”

“Ideals are dead things,” Kaladin said, “unless they have people behind them. Laws exist not for themselves, but for those they serve.”

“On the tranquilizing painkiller [Eukodal] the Furher was fully in command of himself…The overestimation of his own significance and misjudgment opponents…Hilter did not murder because he was living in a haze—quite the contrary: he remained sane until the end.”

“Reich Health Fuhrer…made Pervitin subject to the Reich opium law…The Germans barely took any notice of the rigorous prohibition, let alone observed it. Civilian use even increased, by over 1.5 million units a year.”

“Methamphetamine bridged the gaps, and the doping mentality spread into every corner of the Reich. Pervitin allowed the individual to function in the dictatorship. National Socialism in pill form. “