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Deadeye Dick

Deadeye Dick is a 19th-century adventure novel that follows the exploits of a young man with exceptional marksmanship. The story is filled with thrilling escapades and the protagonist's journey to prove his prowess in the art of sharpshooting. more

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared that oppositions should oppose everything, propose nothing and turf the government out. He was right in this fundamental respect: the opposition's job is to get elected. Intelligent oppositions have no unnecessary enemies. They make the government rather than themselves the issue by ensuring that everyone harmed by government decisions well and truly knows about it.”

“They will see him as a traitor from now on. His Dauntless family will have the option of visiting him in his new faction, a week and a half from now on Visiting Day, but they won't, because he left them. His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space if leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”