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It was the custom in those days for passengers leaving for America to bring balls of yarn on deck. Relatives on the pier held the loose ends. As the Giulia blew its horn and moved away from the dock, a few hundred strings of yarn stretched across the water.
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The magisterial presence of all those potentially readable words stopped her in her tracks.
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I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
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If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being "in love" was only an idea, then you could liberate yourself from its tyranny"
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Don't you think it would have been easier just to stay the way you were?" I lifted my face and looked into my mother's eyes. And I told her: "This is the way I was." You"
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From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar. The only trust fund I have is this story, and unlike a prudent Wasp, I'm dipping into principal, spending it all.
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It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire.
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Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup?
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Elles nous avaient fait participer a leur folie, parce que nous ne pouvions faire autrement.
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Ha a feje megtelt zenevel, vegre el tudott szabadulni a testetol.
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A szorny mindig onnet tamad, ahonnan a legkevesbe sem varnank.
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Az eletek is ugy repednek meg, ahogy a jeg. Szemelyisegek. Egyenisegek.
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Csak onnan tudhatjuk, hogy igaz, hogy mindketten ugyanazt almodtuk. Ettol lesz valosag. A valosag is alom, csak mindenki egyszerre almodja.
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His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.
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religion
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Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.
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Olum, kendini giderek yaslanan aile bireyleriyle ima eder.
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It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, "Don't waste your time on life." --
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Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls. Our parents thought it had to do with our music, our godlessness, or the loosening of morals regarding sex we hadn't even had.
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We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal!
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A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
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Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Most of the time they were camouflaged, like the closed eyes of green lizards in green trees. But then they snapped open -- on the bus, in the pharmacy -- and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and desperation.
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None of us went to church, so we had a lot of time to watch them, the two parents leached of color, like photographic negatives, and then the five glittering daughters in their homemade dresses, all lace and ruffle, bursting with their fructifying flesh.
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When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.
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He came back to us with stories of bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals hugged to death by the passion of the girls, of a crucifix draped with a brassiere, of gauzy chambers of canopied beds, and of the effluvia of so many young girls becoming women together in the same cramped space.
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We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents." "From the what?" asked Desdemona. "From families intermarrying."
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The mouth is small but well shaped, kissable, musical
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Una bala por presion familiar. Una bala por predisposicion genetica. Una bala por malestar historico. Una bala por un impulso inevitable. Las otras dos balas son imposibles de nombrar, pero esto no quiere decir que las camaras estuvieran vacias.
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But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.
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Zhegata idva predi og'nia. Smokinite, strupani na keia, nenatovareni navreme, zapochvat da se pekat, puskat mekhurcheta i sok. Sladkoto se smesva s mirizmata na dim.
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Niakoga esenta zapochvashe s vseobshch grokhot visoko v koronite na d'rvetata. Posle listata se otk'svakha i se ponasiakha k'm zemiata v bezkraino izobilie, kr'zhakha i pliushchiakha, noseni ot techeniiata, siakash svet't si smeniashe kozhata. Nie gi ostaviakhme da se trupat. Namirakhme si izvinenie da stoim i da gledame kak s vseki izminal den klonite razkrivat vse po-golemi k'sove nebe.
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Tortenelmi teny, hogy az emberiseg 1913-ban bucsuzott el ember-mivoltatol. Ez volt az az ev, amikor Henry Ford gorgokre tette az autoit, es munkasait arra kenyszeritette, hogy atvegyek a futoszalag sebesseget. A munkasok eleinte lazadozni probaltak. Falkakban hagytak ott a gyarat, mert keptelenek voltak a testuket az uj idok tempojahoz idomitani. Azota megoldottuk ezt is: mara tulajdonkeppen akar velunk szuletettnek is nevezhetjuk ezt a tem..
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Ma mar nem erdekel az orokke tarto hirnev, es az se, hogy tokeletes konyvet irjak. Megelegszem azzal, ha csak emleket allit keptelen eletemnek.
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Elem a magam eletet, nyalogatom a sajat sebeimet. Lehet, hogy nem ez a legjobb megoldas, de en ilyen vagyok.
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Ez is olyan, mint a kepek a muzeumban - allapitotta meg -, csak arra probalnak urugyet talalni, hogy meztelen noket mutogassanak.
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A szulok dolga az, hogy fizikai vonasokat hagyjanak orokul gyerekeiknek, de az en meggyozodesem az, hogy ezen felul meg egy csomo mas mindent is athagyomanyoznak: mozgatorugokat, forgatokonyveket, de meg akar sorsokat is.
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It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein's contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.
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textbooks
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Ez ido tajt szokasban volt az Amerikaba indulok kozott, hogy szines fonalgombolyagokat vittek magukkal a fedelzetre, egyik veguket kidobtak a partra, hogy a bucsuzkodo rokonok megragadhassak. Megszolal a Giulia kurtje, es a hajo lassan elhagyja a partot. A szines fonalak megfeszulnek a viz felett. Mindenki ordit, hadonaszik, bucsuszavak harsannak, csecsemoket emelnek a magasba egy bucsupillanatra, amire egyikuk sem fog emlekezni. Felzugnak ..
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Ezekben az idokben meg meg lehetett allapitani az emberek nemzeti hovatartozasat a szaguk alapjan. Dezdemona a hatan fekve, behunyt szemmel is felismerte az egyik oldalan fekvo szomszedja arulkodo hagymaszagarol, hogy csak magyar lehet, a masikerol meg, akinek nyershus-szaga volt, azt, hogy ormeny.
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For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.
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Miert tanulunk tortenelmet? Azert, hogy megertsuk a jelent vagy azert, hogy megusszuk?
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Why can't men communicate? (Because they had to be quiet on the hunt.) Why do women communicate so well? (Because they had to call out to one another where the fruits and berries were.) Why can men never find things around the house? (Because they have a narrow field of vision, useful in tracking prey.) Why can women find things so easily? (Because in protecting the nest they were used to scanning a wide field.) Why can't women parallel-par..
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Nagyapamnak viszont sokkal szornyubb valosaghoz kellett hozzaszoknia. Fogta a kezemet, hogy el ne essen, a fak es bokrok jobbra-balra korcsolyaztak szedulo szeme elott, es ekozben hirtelen raebredt, hogy a tudat valoszinuleg nem egyeb a biologia egyik balesetenel. Bar sosem volt vallasos, a lelekben mindig hitt: abban, hogy van bennunk egy ero, ami tuleli testunk halalat. De ahogy az agya egyre jobban ingadozott, egyre surubben kapott rovid..
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plate, nor did Mrs. Bates, who had once wept when we set
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It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex.
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