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Patrick O'Brian has 50 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.
• After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
• But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand…
• I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to…
• He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a…
• The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
• I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
• It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed…

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