Julius Quotes
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
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The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
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So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
