By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.

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Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. "Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No more fights. You get that mad again, shoot the bastard. Promise me.

Mary Doria Russell


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What unnatural words: always and forever! Not even stones are always and forever.

Mary Doria Russell


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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Mary Doria Russell


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There's a series of sculptures there by Michelangelo that you should see. They are called The Captives. Out of a great formless mass of stone, the figures of slaves emerge: heads, shoulders, torsos, straining toward freedom but still held fast in the stone. There are souls like that, Reyes. There are souls that try to carve themselves from their own formlessness.

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You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

Mary Doria Russell


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Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

Mary Doria Russell

Mots clés inspirational religious



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The new fashions sold in department
stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.
They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance
in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry
that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly.
And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as
well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda—
the advertising industry.

Mary Doria Russell

Mots clés capitalism propaganda advertisement



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For Russian Jews, Zionism was an immediate solution to age-old problems.
“Anywhere is better than Russia,” Karl agreed, “but for Western Jews, Zionism is a trap, I think. Once Jews are permitted a territorial center, it will be too easy to drive the rest of us from every other nation on Earth. ‘Go back where you belong!’ ” he cried dismissively, jerking his thumb toward Palestine. “ ‘Oh, by the way, leave all your possessions behind.’ ”
... But I have no need of some artificial homeland invented by the British. I am not a German Jew, Agnes, but a Jewish German.

Mary Doria Russell

Mots clés jews



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Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.

Mary Doria Russell


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