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“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future.…

— Daniel Mark Epstein

“He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring them and…

— Howard Fast

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

“He was far from handsome certainly; and was drest in a snuff-coloured suit, of an uncouth make at the best, which, being shrunk with…

— Charles Dickens

“I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled look was…

— Marisha Pessl

“He delivered the mail, ran our modest recycling program, and maintained our handful of public buildings. He also occasionally fell asleep while driving a…

— Molly Harper

“In other words, like many jihadists, he was hardly the desperate, poverty-stricken warrior that the media imagines.”

— Jay Sekulow

“A man who is in the habit of smiling in the glass at his handsome face and stalwart figure, if you shew him their…

— Marcel Proust

“He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt…

— Isabel Allende

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken”

— Loren D. Estleman