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“If you weren’t there during one of those firefights you wouldn’t be able to get your head around it. Hell, I was in plenty of firefights, and I’m not sure I know what went on over there. The VC understood us better than we did them, but nobody’s got a lock on the whole story. Certainly not a bunch of drunk old grunts.”
― Playing Army
― Playing Army
“- Брось старина, не валяй дурака. Подпиши эту гадость, - сказал Хедрон, склоняясь над Кругом и опуская кулак с трубкой ему на плечо. - Много ли она значит, в конце-то концов? Поставь свою коммерчески ценную закорючку. Брось! Никто не тронет наших кругов, - но где-то же нужно нам их рисовать.
- Не в грязи, сэр, не в грязи, - сказал Круг, улыбнувшись первой за этот вечер улыбкой.
- Да ну, не будь надутым педантом, - сказал Хедрон. Зачем тебе нужно, чтобы я чувствовал себя так неловко? Я подписал, и мои боги не шелохнулись.
Не поднимая глаз, Круг поднял руку и тронул твидовый рукав Хедрона.
-Все в порядке, - сказал он. - Пока ты рисуешь свои круги и показываешь моему мальчику фокусы, черта ли мне в твоей морали.”
― Bend Sinister
- Не в грязи, сэр, не в грязи, - сказал Круг, улыбнувшись первой за этот вечер улыбкой.
- Да ну, не будь надутым педантом, - сказал Хедрон. Зачем тебе нужно, чтобы я чувствовал себя так неловко? Я подписал, и мои боги не шелохнулись.
Не поднимая глаз, Круг поднял руку и тронул твидовый рукав Хедрона.
-Все в порядке, - сказал он. - Пока ты рисуешь свои круги и показываешь моему мальчику фокусы, черта ли мне в твоей морали.”
― Bend Sinister
“Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American.”
― Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
― Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
“Now, all these years later, I’m certain that I got famous so I would not waste my entire life trying to get famous. You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that.”
― Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
“In the Vilnius ghetto, the news of German setbacks in the Soviet Union in the opening weeks of 1943 resulted in an upsurge of grim humour, as Herman Kruk recorded in his diary: A German asks a Jew to lend him 20 roubles. The Jew immediately takes the sum out of his pocket and gives it to him. The German wonders: ‘How can this be? You don’t know me at all, and you trust me with such a sum?’ I have the fullest trust in the Germans,’ answers the Jew. ‘You took Stalingrad and gave it back; you took Kharkov and gave it back. I’m sure that you will give me back my 20 roubles.’ What is the difference between General Rommel and a watch? A watch goes tick-tock and goes forward; Rommel goes tock-tick and goes backward … What city is the largest in the world? Stalingrad, because it took the Germans months to get from the outskirts to the centre.6”
― Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
― Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
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