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Robert said:
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Barn-storming start of eloquence and elegance that (for me) proves it to be a slow going read.
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“You like it in jail?"
"It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?”
― The Long Goodbye
"It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?”
― The Long Goodbye
“It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks.”
― Apocolocyntosis
― Apocolocyntosis
“So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.”
― The Satyricon
― The Satyricon
“Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.”
― Flashman and the Redskins
― Flashman and the Redskins
“Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.”
― Northern Lights
― Northern Lights
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