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The Spanish Civil War (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Hugh Thomas

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“At their most primal, horror stories are about survival—whether it’s survival of identity, free will, or physical life—set against a backdrop of isolation and pursued by a relentless menace that won’t stop until the hero is dead.”
― Jamie Nash, Save the Cat!® Writes Horror: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Monster in the House Stories

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“But garlic also served as food for gods, especially for Hecate.”
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“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
― Golda Meir, My Life

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“It is challenging to obtain blue colorants from nature, but the fungi kingdom is unique in that it offers a rare blue-producing pigment found nowhere else in nature.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

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“The fact that different nations and states define the age of consent differently (in Florida it’s eighteen; in New York it’s seventeen; in England it’s sixteen) only gave him ammunition. He [Epstein] said these inconsistencies proved these laws were arbitrary and meaningless; no one could convince him that sex with minors was wrong, because no one could agree on what a minor was!”
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