"Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun."

-- Fred Saberhagen

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“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancÃ©,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
“People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.”
“For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place”
“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.”

Source : Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon
“I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.”
“From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.”
“Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.”
“The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.64, Random House

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