“We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.”

—  Stephen L. Carter, book The Emperor of Ocean Park

Jack Ziegler, Ch. 44, Stormy Weather, III
The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)

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American legal academic and writer 1954

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