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He wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.
Fredrik Backman • Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
Each letter in the English language has its own unique personality, which includes its frequency and its relation to other letters. It is this personality that allows us to establish the true identity of a letter, even when it has been disguised by monoalphabetic substitution.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Hemingway wrote Perkins from Oak Park that his father had shot himself, leaving a wife, six children, and “damned little money.” His father was the parent Hemingway really cared about. From that day forward his relationship with Perkins deepened. Max became the solid, trustworthy older man in Hemingway’s turbulent life, someone to turn to and rely
... See moreA. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
the English went forward through the wood that is called Creçy, and stamped it with their seal for the second time, in the highest moment of all the secular history of man.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
‘This is Thomas,’ said Grace, without explanation. She stood close by the boy with the ease of long acquaintance, and seemed to Thomas they were in some way ranged against him – that it was possible to make out some connective tissue dissolving between himself and Grace, and re-forming between the other two.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
He was married and had one daughter named Carla.