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“The children were not pleased with the way the story came out,” he admitted in his diary, but he hoped that they would come to “appreciate stories that [do not] come out well, for they are very much like a good deal of life.”
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“A crystal clear Colorado sky opens above us, a blue so deep it makes you dizzy. The occasional bright white wispy cloud dances across the firmament, punctuating the deep blue vault of heaven stretching over this paradise.”
― Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America
― Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America
“Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.”
― One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
― One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
“The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.”
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
“You have to jump around in time to get the facts right. Linear chronology makes for good popular storytelling, but it doesn’t always capture the deep causes that drive history. Some causes are proximate, in the moment. Some are echoes of distant shock waves, still reverberating a hundred—or a thousand—years later.”
― Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
― Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
“It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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