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  1. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    ameliorative. He climbed
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  2. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said {Sherlock} Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP's, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    no nation was better at creating metaphors for itself than America; in this case, the vision of a beautiful, sane, safe, marble future that is all dream and no marble to sustain it.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    Anything is better than this penny-dreadful tale I've found myself in.
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  5. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.
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  6. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use properly.
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  7. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. "Don't you see, James?" he said at last. "You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean nothing to the God-Writer, whoever the sonofabitch might be.
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  8. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature?
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  9. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    America, he thought, and not for the first time, is a nation with huge dreams and not infrequently the ability to realize them.
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  10. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.
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  11. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature
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  12. Dan Simmons _ The Fifth Heart

    The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.
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