“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“The sun has riz, and the sun has set, and here we is in Roosha yet.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
Nelson DeMille
Born place: New York, NY, The United States
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“Ask your mommy can we have two chairs out here," Billy said. "Then we can pretend the whole garden is our house.”
― Shirley Jackson, quote from The Lottery and Other Stories
“I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Gathering Blue
“Hay aire y sol, hay nubes. Allá arriba un cielo azul y detrás de él tal vez haya canciones; tal vez mejores voces...Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar.”
― Juan Rulfo, quote from Pedro Páramo
“You called me Simon before."
"No, I didn't.”
― Rainbow Rowell, quote from Carry On
“Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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