"A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it."

-- Janice Y. K. Lee

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“Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.”
“Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.”
“I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.”
“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
“I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.”
“The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even pin it down and say this is exactly what it predicts, so lets go out and test it. So, it's not even capable of being wrong, or being falsified, or being showed to be wrong.”
“Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.”

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