

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
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“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless.
But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”
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But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”
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“The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants

“You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants

“You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote”, Ethel said crisply.”
― Winter of the World
― Winter of the World
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