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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
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