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“Chance dictates everything.”

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Page 176
Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)

“The Portuguese are the unknown people. We are lost in this vast country. Nobody knows we are here. To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean. It sinks beneath the waves and vanishes without a trace.”

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Page 101
Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)

“Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.”

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Page 125
Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)

“He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
His life has been wiped clean off the board.
But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.”

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Charles Reis Felix

Prologue
Through a Portagee Gate (2004)