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“Why are they going to disappear him?'
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”
― Catch-22
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”
― Catch-22
“I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.”
― Red Road from Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
― Red Road from Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
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“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
― Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“The English and German words are almost identical: “tact” and “takt.” The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were “goose down” and “blitzkrieg.”
― Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
― Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
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