"he's a story i want to know from page one"

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Sara Zarr

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“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
“When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.”
“We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage”
“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
“A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.”
“I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.”
“I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.”
“A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him.”

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