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The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane--he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The
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its somewhat austere and even forbidding limestone exterior,
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yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling;
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Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;
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I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.
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You may put this in your interview, Miss Fife, that Robert Frost believes in civilization--which is to say the Caucasian civilization." "But,"
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Why is the misery of a child so hilarious to other children?
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for, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one's personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, 'Kill him! Kill him!' he is betraying no peculiar pathology or quirk but asserting his common humanity and his kinship, however distant, with the thousands upon thousands of spectators who crowded into the Roman amphitheaters to see gladiators fight to the d..
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Clearly, boxing's very image is repulsive to many people because it cannot be assimilated into what we wish to know about civilized man. In a technological society possessed of incalculably refined methods of mass destruction (consider how many times over the United States and the Soviet Union have vaporized each other in fantasy) boxing's display of direct unmitigated and seemingly natural aggression is too explicit to be tolerated.
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To watch boxing closely, and seriously, is to risk moments of what might be called animal panic--a sense not only that something very ugly is happening but that, by watching it, one is an accomplice. This awareness, or revelation, or weakness, or hairline split in one's cuticle of a self can come at any instant, unanticipated and unbidden; though of course it tends to sweep over the viewer when he is watching a really violent match. I feel ..
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Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open. I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision.
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Traicao e uma coisa dolorosa. Traicao e a ferida mais profunda. Traicao e o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba.
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Voce tem o desejo de por a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem duvida que deseja por a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na propria cama.
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Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro.
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misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]
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Nunca soube de ninguem que tenha tido a vida salva por um bebe.
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Como isso acontece, voce gosta tanto de alguem -- ama alguem, talvez -- e depois, nao muito tempo depois, o que sente e odio? Um odio horrivel e funesto? Um odio de vontade de matar? Por que?
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Voce pode fingir ser quase tudo que nao e, ha pouquissimas coisas que de fato se pode ser.
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The writer understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is. How strangely opaque, what we've seen a thousand times. And how inconsolable a loss, when the taken-for-granted is finally taken from us.
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If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The
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It is perhaps not commonly known that a Negro heavyweight championship title existed from 1902 to 1932 when many white champions (including John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jack Dempsey) refused to fight blacks. (In 1925 Dempsey pointedly refused to meet Harry Willis - "The Black Menace" - in a fight urged upon him by many observers.) One wonders: who were the true world's champions in those years? And of what value are historical records wh..
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Considered in the abstract the boxing ring is an altar of sorts, one of those legendary spaces where the laws of a nation are suspended: inside the ropes, during an officially regulated three-minute round, a man may be killed at his opponents hands but he cannot be legally murdered. Boxing inhabits a sacred space predating civilization; or, to use D.H. Lawrence's phrase, before God was love. If it suggests a savage ceremony or a rite of ato..
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stroke recently. A friend at least a decade
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Mom's new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom's boss at the Buick dealership where she'd worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom's boss--the way he spoke to her, not exactly giving orders, never forgetting to say Please but in a tone of voice that meant there was no negotiating. Of
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Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels--alone. AT
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This web of intricate connections
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Yet The Falls exerted its malevolent spell, that never weakened. If you grew up in the Niagara region, you knew. Adolescence was the dangerous time. Most Niagara natives kept their distance from The Falls, so they were immune. But if you drifted too near, even out of intellectual curiosity, you were in danger: beginning to think thoughts unnatural to your personality as if the thunderous waters were thinking for you, depriving you of your w..
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He was sentimental about women. It infuriated him that any man, let alone a minister, could behave so selfishly on his honeymoon.
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But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this?" She waited. God declined to reply. How"
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A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In
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didn't thank didn't wave goodbye didn't flutter the air with kisses a mound of gifts unwrapped bed unmade no appetite always elsewhere though it was raining elsewhere though strangers peopled the streets though we at home slaved and baked and wept and hung ornaments and perfumed the dark did he marvel did he thank was he grateful did he know was he human was he there always elsewhere: didn't thank didn't kiss toothbrush stiffened with unuse..
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The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO
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Burnaby bobbed to the surface of the water after a few minutes, seemingly "unscathed" as journalists would report. A "universal cheer" went up as the daredevil with the shaved, painted head swam toward the base of Luna Island; would-be rescuers reached out for him even as, when Burnaby was less than ten feet from shore, a powerful undertow sucked him down into the swift, green-tinged water. Eyewitnesses would claim that, as he was sucked do..
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How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies and textbooks! Of
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scintillant,
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papa ci amava. Ci ama.
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no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.
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Yet within seconds she summoned her steely will, this will that so impressed Dirk Burnaby, for he'd never encountered anything like it in his life, establishing where she was, and why. The bad dream was outside her, in the world. She must conquer it there or nowhere.
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unyielding--Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see--she has a former husband very jealous of her--he is her "ex" but he is"
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Ever rising like the souls of the damned seeking salvation," Ariah said to Dirk Burnaby, in one of her rare moments of noticing him. Her fixed, wistful smile made him shudder.)"
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we're sick of ourselves.
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You wear out. You see too much. Every breath hurts. The
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Ariah struck suddenly at her face with both fists. She wanted to pummel, blacken her eyes that had seen too much.
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Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. --SCHOPENHAUER The
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