Future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.
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Zum Autor"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."
"I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die."
"... And what am I to do?'Well, that depends. Do you like the girl?'Like her? I don't know. How do you know if...?'It's very simple. Do you look at her furtively and feel like biting her?'Biting her?'On her backside, for example."
"He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ..."
"They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them."
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."