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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. —I sometimes doubt if he's human, said Will, speaking his thought aloud. It's probably all done with wheels.

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And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett

Born: August 25, 1923
Died: November 9, 2001 (aged 78)
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