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“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements—the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“It may be laid down as an axiom, that whenever a political party forecloses discussion on any subject, but more especially on a great moral issue, it is not only on the wrong side of that issue, but has an intuitive perception of that fact.”
― Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy
― Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“Never in America’s history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was “rigged.”
― The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
― The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
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Eileen’s 2025 Year in Books
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