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“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”
― Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
― Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
“I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn’t a person anymore; it’s just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone—off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the case. You just don’t care. It’s what you have.”
― Old Man's War
― Old Man's War
“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”
― The Long Fall
― The Long Fall
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