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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.”
― John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal

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“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
― T.S. Eliot

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“They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, always to peace. Both of these men had been soldiers, and both of them had been wounded, and they drank to peace.”
― John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal

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“Sometimes it seems that the leaders of nations are little boys with chips on their shoulders, daring each other to knock them off.”
― John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal

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