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“Lenin found music depressing.
Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music.
Khrushchev despised music.
Which is the worst for a composer?”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“He is haggard, he is pale. A handsome young man, brown eyes and brown hair, something in his face that will never be at ease.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise