eab7498
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Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
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greek
humor
mythology
percy-jackson
sorry
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Rick Riordan |
14b9047
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"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
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god
gods
greek
kiss
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Rick Riordan |
7a18a65
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
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consumerism
free-will
god
goddess
greek
p20
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Chuck Palahniuk |
5a3ade7
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It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
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camp
greek
half
jackson
jupiter
neptune
percy
rome
son
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Rick Riordan |
6e8e933
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"About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no attention. Of course not, Frank thought. He's [...] Jason's face was already beaded with sweat. He kept shouting in Latin: "Form ranks!" But the dead legionnaires wouldn't listen to him, either. [...] "Make way!" Frank shouted. To his surprise, the dead legionnaires parted for him. The closest ones turned and stared at him with blank eyes, as if waiting for further orders. "Oh, great..." Frank mumbled."
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frank-zhang
greek
heroes-of-olympus
house-of-hades
jason-grace
legion
legionnaires
nico-di-angelo
percy-jackson
rick-riordan
roman
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Rick Riordan |
a4fdc5a
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"Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you choose your legacy."
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greek
hero
heroes-of-olympus
heroism
house-of-hades
jason-grace
legacy
percy-jackson
rick-riordan
roman
self
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Rick Riordan |
07154bc
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"I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside -- magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?"
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gods
greek
ruby-kane
sadie-kane
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Rick Riordan |
e9a2b03
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The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile.
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gods
greek
greek-gods
greek-mythology
inspirational
kindness
percy-jackson
smile
wine-god
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Rick Riordan |
08a5df9
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You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe
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funny
greek
greek-heroes
medusa
percabeth
percy-jackson
percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes
pj
pjo
rick-riordan
universe
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Rick Riordan |
51cc040
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Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
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greek
humor
mythology
public-service-announcement
safety
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Rick Riordan |
a0cc16f
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In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.
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greek
heroes-of-olympus
jason-grace
rick-riordan
the-house-of-hades
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Rick Riordan |
0c9501e
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"I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps of larger scale, and basked for the one evening allowed to me in the casual, happy atmosphere of the taverna where we dined. I enjoyed poking my finger in a pan and choosing my own piece of lamb. I liked the chatter and the laughter from neighbouring tables. The gay intensity of talk - none of which I could understand, naturally - reminded me of left-bank Paris. A man from one table would suddenly rise to his feet and stroll over to another, discussion would follow, argument at heat perhaps swiftly dissolving into laughter. This, I thought to myself, has been happening through the centuries under this same sky, in the warm air with a bite to it, the sap drink pungent as the sap running through the veins of these Greeks, witty and cynical as Aristophanes himself, in the shadow, unmoved, inviolate, of Athene's Parthenon. ("The Chamois")"
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greek
tavern
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Daphne du Maurier |
48b0878
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"Much later, when I discussed the problem with
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blunder
cosmological-constant
einstein
greek
physics
problem
science
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George Gamow |
1a20e7f
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Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.
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greece
greek
lefty
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
f911983
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Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...
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greek
love
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Philip Roth |
23323af
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"Khoris mellon to paron den ekhei kamia axia, einai san na men uparkhei"."
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greek
inspirational
value
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José Saramago |
1f602bf
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"No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enough if someone is other than bad--not too much out of hand, conscious at least of the justice that helps the city, a healthy man. No I shall not lay blame. Because fools are a species that never ends.
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greek
philosophy
poetry
translation
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Simonides of Ceos |
73fe1e6
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<> disse , guardandoci. <>
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donna-tartt
greek
human-nature
philosophy
philosophy-of-life
philosophy-quotes
the-secret-history
tragedy
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Donna Tartt |