Matthew Pearl Quotes

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• Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light…
• I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
• With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only…
• Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he…
• Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
• Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
• He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

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