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6d49688 "The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance." new-world Emily St. John Mandel
edf3d1d What's done can't be undone. How do I fit into this new world? I should have been warned, somebody should have told me. How was I to know that that sort of world wasn't going to go on for ever? the-wanting-seed new-world Anthony Burgess
7b059af They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition. change recognition new-world Irvine Welsh
14d5abe Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'. henry-hudson native-americans indians new-world hudson-river-expedition manhattan Giles Milton
49c9c25 Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes. world life try-again new-world life-lesson mistake Markus Zusak
d1f3278 For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole. new-world journey Kathryn Lasky
e42b7a4 Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister. new-world quiet-difference sinister life-changing Victoria Holt