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“None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.”
― Three Moments of an Explosion
― Three Moments of an Explosion
“In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.”
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“Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system.”
― Zuleika Dobson
― Zuleika Dobson
“They have,’ she said, ‘the uniformity of their insecurity.”
― Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
― Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
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