Victor Robert Lee Quotes

“If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.”

War God Jesus Oil Lust Gods Jewels Allah Lenin Cono

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“No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.”

Human Nature Fruit Person Kazakhstan

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“After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.”

Inspirational Humanity Philosophy Of Life Reality Of Life

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“Even now, I feel your arms around me My breath is your breath and yours mine Even now, I hear you laughing like bells ... You sing to me and I sing to you Dear child of my womb, my love, Time has left us, left us forever together.”

Mourning Death Of A Child

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“Your death rides a fast camel.”

Death Mortality Threats Camel Tamaris

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“I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself--wouldn't you?”

Marx Stalin Engels Lenin Slem

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“It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.”

Allegiance Philosophy Of People Cono Saving A Life

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“Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.”

China Genetics Espionage Spy Thriller Kazakhstan

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“In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.”

Country Future Future Plans Kazakhstan Cono

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“History is running very fast in my country.”

Kazakhstan Cono Bulat Performance Anomalies

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“Freedom is hard to come by.”

Kazakhstan Cono Bulat Performance Anomalies Katerina

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“She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.”

China Kazakhstan Cono Performance Anomalies Xiao Li

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“Maybe he had become addicted after all—addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm.”

Danger Orgasm Addicted Cono Copulation Pivot Point

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“And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.”

China Progeny Xiao Li Chinese Ancestry

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“A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.”

Dogs And Humans Hierarchy Among People

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“And yet with that bleak horizon before her eyes, Katerina had said the first problem was the uranium. All the children dying. It came to that: women and their children. Even women and the children who did not belong to them. It was the only force in the world resisting the centrifugal destructive rage of men.”

Uranium Women And Children Rage Of Men

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“To Cono’s mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration—the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time.”

Moments Ecstatic Cono Outside Of Time

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“Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.”

Pain Fear Overcoming Fear Overcoming Pain Surmounting

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“A kite only flies if it’s tethered.”

Philosophy Of Life Philosophy Quotes Kite Bulat

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“Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.”

Freedom China Beijing Bulat

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“He has freedom on his face.”

Freedom Cono Bulat Dimira Nurbek

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“What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?”

Buddha Cono Performance Anomalies Xiao Li

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“You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies.”

Genetic Cono Performance Anomalies

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“Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their country, wearing around their necks the red ties of the Communist Party Youth Brigade, which had formed their beings and all that they would be and would ever believe, even as communism became a ghost and the party a web of corruption.”

Corruption Communism Chinese Communist Party Communist Party Youth Brigade Red Ties

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