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| 2c41ff3 | The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers. In that classic, Brooks's larcenous and dopey heroes, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set out to sell more than 100 percent of the ownership stakes in the Broadway show they are producing. Since they will be found out only if the show is a hit, everything about the show is premised on its being a flop. Accordingly, they create a sho.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b43dcf4 | What tender threads do life and death hang | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2031b31 | They are mad; they are fools," said the Dog-man." | H.G. Wells | ||
| e85391b | As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire. | ignorance suffering | H.G. Wells | |
| 70d2502 | Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau -- | H.G. Wells | ||
| 8f44abc | And then," said Sarnac, "I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand years ago? Or two weeks ago? I sat in Fanny's little sitting-room, an old-world creature amidst her old-world furnishings, and I said that men and women would not always suffer as we were suffering then. I said that we were still poor savages, living only in the bleak dawn of civilisation, and that we suffered because we were under-bred,.. | utopianism | H.G. Wells | |
| d87b015 | The stranger swore briefly but vividly. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 5edf350 | We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights - so be it! But one thing is real and certain, one thing is no dream-stuff, but eternal and enduring. It is the centre of my life, and all other things about it are subordinate or altogether vain. I loved her, that woman of a dream. An.. | dream love | H.G. Wells | |
| d3b737c | The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs. | noise | H. G. Wells | |
| 305c865 | The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. | H.G. Wells | ||
| c1212e1 | Aren't we all agreed about those things--in theory?' In theory, yes,' said Bobby. 'But not in reality. If every one really wanted to abolish the difference of rich and poor it would be as easy as pie to find a way. There's always a way to everything if you want to do it enough. But nobody really wants to do these things. Not as we want meals. All sorts of other things people want, but wanting to have no rich and poor any more isn't real wan.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 9b4c419 | The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 41084f0 | Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world. | catholicism church malignant mischief | H.G. Wells | |
| 8f12268 | You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness. The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 6b7d7d2 | Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the uninte.. | combed devout gifts jesus judea poor raiment reality sleek spotless unintelligent unreal unwise | H.G. Wells | |
| 3b06998 | A Cabinet Minister, the responsible head of thar most vital of all departments, wandering alone - grieving - sometimes near audibly lamenting - for a door, for a garden! | H.G. Wells | ||
| 25e7cab | He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a filmy phantasmagoria that hung, scarcely veiling it, between him and a horrible real world. Then the Porroh man, thrusting his diabolical face through that curtain, was the one real and undeniable thing. At that he would get up and touch things, taste s.. | imagination superstition witch-doctor | H.G. Wells | |
| fc1052a | The bookshop of Kipps is on the left-hand side of the Hythe High Street coming from Folkestone, between the yard of the livery stable and the shop-window full of old silver and such like things--it is quite easy to find--and there you may see him for yourself and speak to him and buy this book of him if you like. He has it in stock, I know. Very delicately I've seen to that. His name is not Kipps, of course, you must understand that, but ev.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| c6b80e9 | The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And | H.G. Wells | ||
| 2592f97 | What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0db8fae | What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind - what is it? That some day the Over-man may come, that some day the inferior, the weak and the bestial may be subdued or eliminated. Subdued if not eliminated. The world is no place for the bad, the stupid, the enervated. Their duty - it's a fine duty too! - is to due. The death of the failure! That is the path by which the beas.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 69349f6 | I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes--to come to this at last. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 773941e | Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms. | H.G.Wells | ||
| e59ad26 | Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It will only spread warfare and multiply the occasions of war. In a little while, in a very little while if I tell my secret, this planet to it's deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but this is certain...It.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| f1d7b06 | The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church. | catholic-church church evil institution roman-catholic | H.G. Wells | |
| 82173c9 | So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last. | H.G. Wells | ||
| e1189d2 | The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one | h.g. wells | ||
| 7a98c08 | dh dhhb l`ql wlqw@ fn lmtnn w lHb lrqyq byn lnsn w lnsn sbyqyn f~ qlb lnsn | H.G. Wells | ||
| 74c0e09 | one of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at the creature, trying to wriggle free, gathering my energy to fight back. before I can, the beasts laughs and says, "Surely you recognise me." | Darren Shan | ||
| 1db2208 | We laugh. Bec stares at us uncertainly, then joins in. She sounds a bit like Bill-E when she laughs, and for a few happy moments it's as if me, my brother and uncle are together again, relaxing in Dervish's study, sharing a joke, not a care in the world. | Darren Shan | ||
| 4d6a9e8 | Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad -por desagradable que esta pueda ser-- a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa. | Darren Shan | ||
| 9345bdb | He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs." | Darren Shan | ||
| a6e68f3 | Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and died. | Darren Shan | ||
| 2b5536b | Those who hate are doomed to become slaves to their hatred. It consumes them like a disease, but it is an illness they cannot-or do not want to-live without. | Darren Shan | ||
| 6cbf158 | You stole a vampire's spider@" Steve shouted. "You stole from a member of the undead!" | Darren Shan | ||
| 50249d4 | But Steve will die if I do that!" I cried. "Yes," he agreed. "It is your assistance or his life." "That's not much of a choice," I grumbled. "No," he admitted, "it is not. But it is the only one I offer." | Darren Shan | ||
| 41d98ba | I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. | demons dinosaurs grubbs-grady | Darren Shan | |
| a2757e2 | I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business. | lord-loss snakes | Darren Shan | |
| 86a2dc4 | I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness. | Darren Shan | ||
| e43cb86 | They're going to demand your death, Darren. | Darren Shan | ||
| 2899841 | El tiempo nunca se detiene. Todos tenemos sitios a donde ir y obstaculos que superar | Darren Shan | ||
| ac23b85 | thanks for saving me back there larten errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant | Darren Shan | ||
| c563218 | It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you--even if you have to act like a pig. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 2092b62 | In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way tried to make as many people miserable as possible. | Rodman Philbrick |