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The School for Thieves

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“He loves hot dogs—obsessively loves hot dogs. He'd eat a hot dog every day for the rest of his life if he could. Isn't it funny that this is the kind of information that makes a person unique? That they love to eat a stick of meat in a round bed of bread. Absurd. When you grow up, Bean, maybe you will love trains. Or brussels sprouts. And we will all marvel over this thing that makes you you.”

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“Естер без перебільшення зіткнувся в ній зі «слабоумством», поглибленим до меж хворобливої жаги перемоги, і «дешевим розрахунком», втіленим у якесь неотесане хуторянство, такою глибоко пекельною сумішшю грубості, нечулості, шкідницької ненависті й буйного хамства, проти якого він десятиліттями виявлявся безсилим.”

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“Here there is no doubt that timidity and a total lack of personal initiative have always been regarded among us as the chiefest and best sign of the practical man—and are so regarded even now. But why blame only ourselves—if this opinion can be considered an accusation? Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the best recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”

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“What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed? It is all those differences, however minuscule, that make up my existence.”

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