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This site is no longer being kept up to date, but it has some nice quotes from past reads.

David Mitchell   ::   The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

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If only, Shiroyama dreams, human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.
'My uncle would quote Luther: "Whilst friends show us what we can do, it is our enemies who show us what we must."'
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and this is itself.
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2004 [32 read]
2003 [18 read]
2002 [52 read]
2001 [43 read]
2000 [7 read]
1999 [25 read]
1998 [3 read]
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