Spencerville
Nelson DeMille
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ”
“truth needs two people to make it work—the speaker and the listener.”
“they don’t want their thinking or attitudes changed. They want their values and beliefs endorsed, and they want government and society to reflect their values and beliefs, not yours.”
“You know what an idealist is? That’s a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.”
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
“The summer of ’63, Keith reflected, had been called the last summer of American innocence,”
“The guy did okay for himself.”
“The danger’s passed, the wrong is righted; the veteran’s ignored, the soldier’s slighted.”
“Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There’s no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.”
“Each administration that he’d served had started out with its own unique style, its own vision, energy, optimism, and idealism. But within a year, the entrenched bureaucracy reexerted its suffocating influence, and about a year after that, the new administration began getting pessimistic, isolated, and divided with internal conflicts and squabbles.”
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