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“He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”
“The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment”
“Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.”
“I feel . . . low," I say, looking away. "Like, literally low. Flat. It's not . . . sad, exactly. I mean, sad too, obviously. But that's a different feeling, I guess."She nods. "There's a reason it'...”
“You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make ...”
“In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.”
“Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.”
“Art is not democratic. Art is sublime.”
“Writing a modern novel in a national language hence means writing with the awareness that you inhabit the same world as others around the globe. You see the same world map and the same world histor...”
“Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets are people who will support you, build you up, and encourage you. Liabilities are people who will...”
“Caught between life and death, I clung to life.”
“Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this?”
“Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant”
“You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.”
“Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language.”
“How fickle it is, memory preferring some days to others, granting first a blue sky, offering next the sound of laughter, swelling our remembrances until a largeness seeps into the grain of things a...”
“For Japanese people before 1868, Europeans were little more than curious beasts, strange and incomprehensible. Then, after the Meiji Restoration, everything changed. Along with European science and...”
“I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the papers. After that robust description, I s...”
“Linc was so amazed at what he saw and heard, This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.”
“One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.”
