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Ernest Hemingway
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Tom Wolfe
“The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.”
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Marilynne Robinson
“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

John Steinbeck
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Robert A. Caro
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

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