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“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”

Book:Memory Wall: Stories

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Memory Wall: Stories

This book compiles a series of short narratives that delve into the complexities of memory, examining how it shapes personal identities and collective experiences. The stories traverse various settings and characters, reflecting on the ways in which memories can both define and burden individuals and groups. more

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels known for his delicate narrative and profound character development. His works often explore themes of history, memory, and human experience. Born on October 27, 1973, Doerr graduated from Yale University. His career began with writing short stories for The New Yorker, which later led to his long-form novel writing. more

“The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.”

Balls Profound Calm Storm Awful Explosions Rifles Powder

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“I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.”

People Attitude Emulate Recycling Idolized

Author:Michael Hutchence

“Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.”

Men States Hands Perfect United Brain United States Ships

Book:The Maritime History of Massachusetts

Source: The Maritime History of Massachusetts

“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.”