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| 771e3b5 | wynsnt hmsry drd bh nm hln. w ywnny st w mwhy blndy drd. rngshn khrdhst. mykhwstm mbdy adb bshm w ngwym khh rngshn khrdhst m fkhr nmykhnm brysh hmyty dshth bshd gr dygrn hm bdnnd rng mwhysh Tby`y nyst. Hl hm khh ryshhy mwh khwdshn r nshn ddhnd dygr qyfhsh khml shbyh khsy shdh khh mwhysh r rng khrdh. chh myshd gr mn w w dwstn Smymy bwdym. chh myshd gr lbshysh r bh mn qrD mydd w mygft, yn bh tw byshtr myad, pysht bmwnh. chh myshd gr dr myn sh.. | Miranda July | ||
| 9715737 | It was only with the crisis that debt soared. Yet many Europeans in key positions - especially politicians and officials in Germany, but also the leadership of the European Central Bank and opinion leaders throughout the world of finance and banking - are deeply committed to the Big Delusion, and no amount of contrary evidence will shake them. As a result, the problem of dealing with the crisis is often couched in moral terms: nations are i.. | Paul Krugman | ||
| c8cfa44 | The only people discussing "race" with any insight and courage are loud middle-aged white men who romanticize the Kennedys and Motown, well-read open-minded white kids like the tie-dyed familiar sitting next to me in the Free Tibet and Boba Fett T-shirt, a few freelance journalists in Detroit, and the American hikikomori who sit in their basements pounding away at their keyboards composing measured and well-thought-out responses to the endl.. | race-and-culture | Paul Beatty | |
| cc0cab2 | She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all. | hope | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| 4c4f965 | Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals." | John Hersey | ||
| c604724 | Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit." Jerome Facher - A Civil Action." | Jonathan Harr | ||
| bc548f5 | SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art; Annie Dillard and Cort Conley, eds., Modern American Memoirs; Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory; Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay; Jane Taylor McDonnell, Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir; and William Zinsser, ed.,.. | Vivian Gornick | ||
| 2342d09 | From the colonial era, the major legacy Europe left to Africa was not democracy as it is practiced today in countries like England, France, and Belgium; it was authoritarian rule and plunder. On the whole continent, perhaps no nation has had a harder time than the Congo in emerging from the shadow of its past. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 0a65b5e | And so the bulk of chicotte blows were inflicted by Africans on the bodies of other Africans. This, for the conquerors, served a further purpose. It created a class of foremen from among the conquered, like the kapos in the Nazi concentration camps and the predurki, or trusties, in the Soviet gulag. Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror | Adam Hochschild | ||
| a0a2001 | Genesis represents not just religion but also science--one | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 6a3c166 | Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When" | Esther Perel | ||
| 98fd0f4 | Erotic intimacy is the revelation of our memories, wishes, fears, expectations, and struggles within a sexual relationship. When our innermost desires are revealed, and are met by our loved one with acceptance and validation, the shame dissolves. It is an experience of profound empowerment and self-affirmation for the heart, body, and soul. When we can be present for both love and sex, we transcend the battleground of Puritanism and hedonis.. | Esther Perel | ||
| d66aa69 | Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies. This never-ending dance between change and stability is like the anchor and the waves. | Esther Perel | ||
| 4b79127 | The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others. | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| 8cf71d9 | Ecologists have long understood that the typical interaction between any two individuals or species is neither competition nor cooperation, but neutralism. Neutralism means apathy: the animals just ignore each other. If their paths threaten to cross, they get out of each other's way. Anything else usually takes too much energy. Being nasty has costs, and being nice has costs, and animals evolve to avoid costs whenever possible. [...] If we .. | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| 335b15a | Having failed in efforts to control or curtail the president's tweeting, Priebus searched for a way to have practical impact. Since the tweets were often triggered by the president's obsessive TV watching, he looked for ways to shut off the television. But television was Trump's default activity. Sunday nights were often the worst. Trump would come back to the White House from the weekend at one of his golf resorts just in time to catch pol.. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 55f5036 | For Priebus, it was the worst meeting among many terrible ones. Six months into the administration, he could see vividly that they had a fundamental problem of goal setting. Where were they going? The distrust in the room had been thick and corrosive. The atmosphere was primitive; everyone was ostensibly on the same side, but they had seemed suited up in battle armor, particularly the president. This was what craziness was like, Priebus con.. | Bob Woodward | ||
| fbfb5d6 | As an extreme measure, Hicks, Porter, Gary Cohn and White House social media director Dan Scavino proposed they set up a committee. They would draft some tweets that they believed Trump would like. If the president had an idea for a tweet, he could write it down or get one of them in and they would vet it. Was it factually accurate? Was it spelled correctly? Did it make sense? | Bob Woodward | ||
| 83842cb | Coming back from the G20 summit, Trump was editing an upcoming speech with Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, "TRADE IS BAD." Though he never said it in a speech, he had finally found the summarizing phrase and truest expression of his protectionism, isolationism and fervent American nationalism." | Bob Woodward | ||
| 7cfc2a4 | Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be. Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is. | petraeus obama | Bob Woodward | |
| af05326 | NAFTA was another enduring Trump target. The president had said for months he wanted to leave NAFTA and renegotiate. "The only way to get a good deal is to blow up the old deal. When I blow it up, in that six months, they'll come running back to the table." His theory of negotiation was that to get to yes, you first had to say no. "Once you blow it up," Cohn replied, "it may be over. That's the most high-risk strategy. That either works or .. | Bob Woodward | ||
| a14089a | Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic... | leadership bob-woodward obama-s-wars idealists president | Bob Woodward | |
| a80a88a | During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose the war or be seen as losing the war. 'If we're not successful here,' Jones said, 'you'll have a staging base for global terrorism all over the world. People will say the terrorists won. And you'll see expressions of these kinds of things in Africa, South America, you name it. Any developing country is going to.. | war bob-woodward obama-s-wars foreign-policy terrorism united-states | Bob Woodward | |
| 5e3c09b | Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just | religion inquisition middle-ages | Michela Wrong | |
| ee5ef73 | Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites. | Michela Wrong | ||
| 525ebf0 | She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she'd read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art--she could remember nothing about them at all, so that it seemed rather pointless even to say that she had read them; such claims were things people set great store by but she hardly supposed they recalled any more than she did. Sometimes a book persisted as a coloured shadow at the edge.. | books what-s-the-name-of-that-book remembering | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| feb4f77 | Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| bcfb737 | On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down. | children | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| b6dc4b1 | He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 5d6fee6 | How much are we the product of our faces and how much are they the product of our personalities? I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 79b8ca5 | I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 9c5fa35 | There were angels too, some bent with devotion, others standing with heads cast down and hands clasped together, bereft. I thought of [them] and how maybe the important thing is to have somebody grieve for you; to know that angels will bow in sorrow. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 55c982d | I see her again: her face wet with tears, her eyes searching mine. Slowly, very slowly, I reach my hands out and trace my fingertips along her skin, first down her neck, so warm and fragile, then across her breasts and down along the curves of her hips. Then with all my strength I wrap my arms around her and pull her toward me, but she is gone. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 760cb56 | If love doesn't triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life's wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it's that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that's what we're really after, isn't it? | Jonathan Hull | ||
| cb70f34 | I spent all day wandering up and down the hallways, staring at the Mona Lisa and Canova's 'Psyche and Cupid' and the 'Venus de Milo' and Caravaggio's 'The Death of the Virgin' and hundreds of other works in all shapes and sizes and colors. Just before I was about to leave, I was staring at Michelangelo's 'The Dying Slave', and I suddenly realized that every single work I had seen expressed the same thing, the same intense longing for beauty.. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 7d3a743 | The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult. | insult mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting | Mary Stewart | |
| 06f91e7 | I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was. | wringing-hands nine-coaches-waiting | Mary Stewart | |
| 22a1852 | Dios? ?Dios? Te he oido hablar de muchos dioses. Si te refieres a Mitra... --Mitra, Apolo, Arturo, Cristo, llamalo como quieras --dije--. ?Que importa el nombre que le den los hombres? Es la misma luz, y los hombres deben vivir con esta luz o morir. Yo solo se que Dios es la fuente de toda la luz que ilumina la tierra y que su designio esta en todo el mundo y pasa por cada hombre como un gran rio que no podemos detener ni desviar; solo pode.. | Mary Stewart | ||
| e6e296d | It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 9abee2e | That was the way Dean found me when he finally decided I was worth saving. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ec930ef | JEAN: Ai vazut ce va sa zica bautura: nu mai esti stapin pe miscarile tale, nu mai ai forta-n miini, esti ametit, nauc. Iti sapi singur groapa, prietene, te pierzi complet. BERENGER: Nu-mi place alcoolul cine stie ce. Si totusi, daca nu beau, nu merge. E ca si cind mi-ar fi frica - asa ca beau ca sa-mi dispara frica. JEAN: Frica de ce? BERENGER: Nu prea stiu bine de ce. Nu ma simt in largul meu in viata, printre oameni, si-atunci trag cite-.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 31c276a | It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them--or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| a766e5c | Ne m'envoie plus ouvrir la porte. Tu as vu que c'etait inutile. L'experience nous apprend que lorsqu'on entend sonner a la porte, c'est qu'il n'y a jamais personne. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| c97a93a | Within the confines of the great, universal prison, I had made for myself a smaller prison, a prison made to order. I had carved out for myself a little niche in which I could live. It was tiny, I had no doubt about that point. But at least it was made to measure, to my measure. A little niche in a prison that kept me from seeing the prison. A prison without work? Was I bored? Was I resigned? Tired, no doubt. | Eugène Ionesco |