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| 976f88b | Silted-up residues of the years smouldered uninterruptedly--and not without melancholy--in the maroon brickwork of these medieval closes: beyond the cobbles and archways of which (in a more northerly direction) memory also brooded, no less enigmatic and inconsolable, among water-meadows and avenues of trees: the sombre demands of the past becoming at times almost suffocating in their insistence. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 43df416 | Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the flat. | romance seduction sex | Anthony Powell | |
| 7f0c91d | Do you think love flourishes at Stourwater?' 'I don't know,' said Moreland. 'Love means such different things to different people. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 6ecdac1 | In fact, so far as 'love' was concerned, I had been living for some years past in a rather makeshift manner. This was not because I felt the matter to be of little interest, like a man who hardly cares what he eats provided hunger is satisfied, or one prepared to discuss painting, should the subject arise, though never tempted to enter a picture gallery. On the contrary, my interest in love was keen enough, but the thing itself seemed not p.. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 69b5d90 | He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said.. | ironic verbosity wry | Anthony Powell | |
| 7e6dbc8 | Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise. | marriage sardonic | Anthony Powell | |
| f6aca48 | Well,' said Mrs. Erdleigh, speaking kindly, as if to a child who has proposed a game inevitably associated with the breakage of china, 'I trouble will come of it if we do. | Anthony Powell | ||
| b52dcee | My brother is a strange fellow," said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie." | Anthony Powell | ||
| 9951cc9 | Such colourless phrases as he achieved were produced with a difficulty, a hesitancy, simulated perhaps, but decidedly effective in their unconcealed ineptness. Like most successful men, he had turned this apparent disadvantage into a powerful weapon of offense and defense, in the way that the sledge-hammer impact of his comment left, by its banality, every other speaker at a standstill, giving him as a rule complete mastery of the conversat.. | Anthony Powell | ||
| a552d06 | The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it. | democracy demographics-of-united-states diversity equality eric-garner freedom george-zimmerman happiness human-rights-day justice kajieme-powell killing-of-black-men-in-america mass-incarceration michael-brown new-jim-crow pursuit-of-happiness race-and-racism-in-america racial-demographics racial-discrimination racism tamir-rice trayvon-martin troy-anthony-davis | Aberjhani | |
| c08ac07 | Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid. | corruption legacy | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| b1219cb | You don't have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?" Dear folks, chickens don't need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don't need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge." | Joel Salatin | ||
| c073fab | President Barack Obama, supposed friend of the common man, has put Monsanto's own vice president, GMO shepherd Michael Taylor, in charge of food safety. | Joel Salatin | ||
| 9ec5f66 | But the western mind can't bear an opt- out option. we're going to have to re-fight the Battle of the Little Bighorn to preserve the right to opt-out, or your grandchildren and mine will have no choice but to eat amalgamated, irradiated, genetically prostituted, bar-coded, adulterated fecal spam from the centralized processing conglomerate." Joel Salatin" | Michael Pollan | ||
| b5f518e | I was on a radio talk show in Vermont one January and the host was giving me a hard time about organic food prices. "I had a party at my house last week and wanted to serve corn on the cob, so I went down to the supermarket and the regular corn was $2.49 for a dozen ears and the organic was $4.89. How can you justify that?" Wrong question. The question is, "Why do you need fresh sweet corn in Vermont in January? You should be eating canned,.. | Joel Salatin | ||
| bf85311 | Ah, my dear, you are a good wife. You are my beauty. You are my only love. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 71b03ac | Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d9e64c8 | Be particular. That is, without a doubt, the Best Advice Ever Given in the History of the Entire World. Consider, if you will, the profound effect that following that advice would have on, say, your diet, your love life, your financial situation, your decision on whether to have that next drink. I mean, what do those two words not cover? | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 4b72ca7 | So break up with him. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 66c6705 | The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| ab7dd42 | Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 4b57253 | With every morsel I consumed, I was informed that princes most love slender young ladies. As I was as interested in a prince's love as in sticking my fish fork into my ear, I reacted to this by cleaning my plate ever more thoroughly. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| caff938 | He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue--the | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 00f52cd | Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy. | happiness | Philippa Gregory | |
| a785607 | Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth. | history women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 8d58d50 | People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9555a11 | But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b28d610 | So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise! | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a3f2718 | Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0ccbf5b | One never gets the same summer twice. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1600835 | The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f41181d | I also felt a storm in the air. It prickled on the horizon. I felt it on my skin. The skies were clear, I could not wish for clearer. But I could feel the clouds massing against me, somewhere over the horizon. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6892d33 | She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.' 'You told me to risk it.' I reminded her. 'That was for you,' she said 'I would not live my life as you live yours. You would always do as you were bid. I am not like you. I make my own way. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a982056 | when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 87f8156 | There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips. She did not flaunt her return to favour. She took it as she had taken her eclipse: as the nature of royal marriage. Now that her star was risen again she walked as proudly as she had ever done when in shadow. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ec6948a | Anne's smile was as sweet as poison. 'What matter? So long as it is a Boleyn girl?' 'I didn't want you to come back to court to be my rival,' I said sulkily. 'I was born to be your rival,' she said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters aren't we? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 34b8f13 | Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Katherine of England could be put aside for no reason, then any wife could be put aside. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b4c4688 | In a world where women were bought and sold as horses I had found a man I loved; and married for love. I would never suggest that this was a mistake. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 387ee05 | But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a great woman like Melusina, or Yolande, or like me; but you will be like all women; uneasy in the world of men. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 47c1ec4 | You just decide. Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk towards it. Remember - anything you fear, you walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a2cbac3 | The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the gateway will will miss your laughter, and the wall will miss your shadow. | love | Philippa Gregory | |
| c3eb705 | It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks if I have lost my childhood sense of vocation, if I still want to be a nun. Nobody cares what I think at all. They treat me like an ordinary young woman, bred for wedding and bedding, and since they do not ask me what I think, nor observe what.. | personhood women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 77585e1 | I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2c96b55 | The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit. | Philippa Gregory |