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#1. Page 112 The Honorable Schoolboy
He was attended this morning by his wife, a former Bible School teacher from Borneo, a dried- out shrew in bobbed hair and ankle socks who could spot a sin before it was committed.

John Le Carre

#2. Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. History's just one darn thing after another.

Henry Ford

#4. Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses.
Rejoice, little book!
For on that day, we will be free

Joanna Russ

#6. Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.

Nick Harkaway

#7. It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the passage back to daily life. Each time, the passage became more difficult.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments ... [but] true and lasting peace among nations cannot consist in the possession of an equal supply of armaments but only in mutual trust.

Pope John XXIII

#9. I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

Lev Grossman

#10. It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

Enoch Powell