This book is from 1985. Today marks the 50th anniversary. The murderers will probably need no Amnesty. They will die without being tried. |
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Beers & Books CXCV – Shoot to kill
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Bogside Massacre,
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Monday, January 24, 2022
Beers & Books CXCIII – E.T.A. Hoffmann
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. |
E.T.A. Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822)
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
Beers & Books CXCII – Giulio Stocchi
Giulio Stocchi (20 January 1944 – April 2019)
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
Beers & Book CXCI – Nâzım Hikmet
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die. |
Nâzım Hikmet (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963)
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Beers & Books CXC – Jack London
Burning Daylight * There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointments. |
Jack London (12 Januar 1876 – 22 November 1916)
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Beers & Books CLXXXIX – Eduardo Mendoza
La ciudad de los prodigos / The City of Marvels * Un problema deja de serlo si no tiene solución. A problem is no longer a problem if it has no solution. |
Eduardo Mendoza *11 January 1943
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Monday, January 10, 2022
Beers & Books CLXXXVIII – Antonio Muñoz Molina
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. * * * Like a Fading Shadow The Polish Rider |
Antonio Muñoz Molina *10 January 1956
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Beers & Books CLXXXVII – Gianni Celati
Gianni Celati (10 January 1937 – 3 January 2022)
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Saturday, January 08, 2022
Beers & Books CLXXXVI – Leonardo Sciascia
The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. |
Leonardo Sciascia (8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989)
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Leonardo Sciascia,
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Thursday, January 06, 2022
Beers & Books CLXXXV – Maeve Brennan
"All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable." |
Maeve Brennan (6 January 1917 – 1 November 1993)
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literature,
Maeve Brennan,
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Laughing Lhursday*
Tuesday, January 04, 2022
Monday, January 03, 2022
Beers & Books CLXXXIII – J. R. R. Tolkien
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. |
J. R. R. Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973)
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Tolkien,
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Saturday, January 01, 2022
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