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| 62458c5 | In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something about those things didn't make that mistake. But at the level of Time magazine the joke was how they copied everything and claimed it for their own. Well, of course the corollary of that is that it's our bomb they have and that means we were betrayed. After the war our whole foreign policy depended on our havin.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 1d41670 | I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool a painful injury or the mournful witness of the slow death of a parent all this is given to all men as well as the starting awake in the nether hours of the night from such glutinous nightmare that on'e self name relationships nationality place in life all data of specificity wipe out amnesiatically asiatically you don.. | life stream-of-consciousness | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 9aa1118 | Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under the laws of treason. Treason statutes which were many and unending, the instrument by which the monarch eliminated his opposition and also added to his wealth. The property of the executed traitor forfeited by his heirs because of the loathsomeness of his crime. The prosecution of treaso.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 236c59e | You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6b3af5f | But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a860453 | a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly--and with very limited funds. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 9843e0f | What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 7c81fd9 | Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 6aa7f27 | I am thirty," Ignatius said condescendingly. "You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I mak.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| ea12744 | Levy pantolonlarinin bulundugu semtte her kosebasinda bir bar var, bu da yoredeki maaslarin ne kadar dusuk oldugunun gostergesi. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 1158e11 | Mother, when was this coffee dripped?" Ignatius demanded, flapping into the kitchen again. "Just about a hour ago. Why?" "It certainly tastes brackish." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| cfc9b2f | Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8aa1fb1 | She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3a3477c | This is clearly a case for the Civil Liberties Union," Ignatius observed, squeezing his mother's drooping shoulder with the paw. "We must contact Myrna Minkoff, my lost love. She knows about those things." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 72a1239 | It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 829e30b | Viens t'agenouiller avec moi pres de la fenetre, David, et prions pour que ta maman se sente bien demain, et que rien n'arrive a ton papa ce soir, et que toi et moi... que toi et moi ne souffrions pas trop, ni demain, ni jamais. Cela m'avait l'air d'une priere magnifique, alors j'ai regarde par la fenetre et j'ai commence, mais mes yeux sont tombes sur la Bible de neon, en dessous de nous, et je n'ai pas pu continuer. Et puis j'ai vu les et.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 21156f7 | Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 1ac3d18 | My father once told me love is magic, sir. | romantic-love | Victoria Alexander | |
| 4b3742c | I was lying!" "Why did you have to choose that moment to do it so well?" "Because I had to make you believe me! Because I couldn't let you give up your life for me!" "You are so annoyingly noble." She sniffed. "It took me far too long to realize it was all an act.One I should make you pay dearly for.You humiliated me in front of those very nice people." "Those very nice people you actively deceived," he said pointedly. "Besides, you hit me... | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 008973d | Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes widened in an innocent manner he didn't believe for a moment. "I quite detest dust"." -- | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 0796660 | Pamela pulled off her cloak and Alexei gasped. "You have on breeches!" He stared in disbelief. "Breeches!" "I've never worn them before, and they are extremely comfortable. I quite like them." She smoothed the fabric over her hip. "Besides, you don't expect me to duel in a dress, do you?" "I do not expect you to duel at all!" Pamela ignored him. "That would be most unfair, dueling in a dress, unless, of course, you would be willing to wear .. | fencing hilarious | Victoria Alexander | |
| 7e00ea0 | No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 4be3521 | To do something for someone or something you loved--England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history--wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth. | Connie Willis | ||
| 8eca846 | Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'? | Connie Willis | ||
| 27f1402 | You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last." I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan Turing, got knocked unconscious by a collapsing wall, faked my own death, and met the Queen. "It's a long story," he said." | wwii-fiction | Connie Willis | |
| ef0ece3 | That's the thing about poetry, it's scarcely ever accurate. Take the Lady of Shalott. 'She loosed the chain and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away.' She lies down in the boat and goes floating down to Camelot, which couldn't possibly happen. I mean, one can't steer lying down, can one? She'd have ended up stuck in the reeds a quarter of a mile out. I mean, Cyril and I always have trouble keeping the boat headed in a straight l.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 918d488 | I sat there watching him examine the fish and marvelling at what we'd caught. A genuine eccentric Oxford don. They're an extinct species, too... | oxford-university | Connie Willis | |
| 39337d0 | She reached the group. Eileen had been crying. She wiped clumsily at her cheeks as Polly joined them, and then smiled at her. "Are you ready?" Eileen asked. , Polly thought. "Yes." "Are you certain?" Colin said. "I know how hard this must be for you. We haven't a lot of time, but we've enough for you to say goodbye, if there's anyone else you need to--" , Polly thought." | Connie Willis | ||
| abf23c7 | At first glance, this seems an improbable scenario due to both the Martians' and Emily Dickinson's dispositions. Dickinson was a recluse who didn't meet anybody, preferring to hide upstairs when neighbors came to call and to float notes down on them.14 Various theories have been advanced for her self-imposed hermitude, including Bright's Disease, an unhappy love affair, eye trouble, and bad skin. T. L. Mensa suggests the simpler theory that.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 03bb7b6 | Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." --ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But" | Connie Willis | ||
| f4147fb | Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our surroundings, our experiences, ourselves, seeing similarities, parallels, connections. We cannot help it. Even as the mind fails, it goes on trying to make sense of what is happening to it. | parallels the-mind | Connie Willis | |
| 13a8a2a | Belki bizim zamanimizin sorunu da budur Bay Dunworthy. Kuruculari Maisry, piskoposun elcisi ve Sir Bloet ne de olsa. Roche gibi kalip yardim etmeye calisan butun insanlar vebaya yakalanip olduler. | Connie Willis | ||
| 25af8ad | There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying. | Connie Willis | ||
| 6536f2c | 2 percent of America's electricity now goes to keeping the Internet cool, to keeping the link unbroken, for America and for the world. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 47aedc4 | Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays--they are all in this one book. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 44e48ad | the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 316769d | According to an equally lovingly preserved English translation of the prospectus, the purpose of Ibuka's firm was "to establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open-mindedness, and where engineers with sincere motivation can exercise their technological skills to the highest level." We shall, he pledged, "eliminate any unfair profit-seeking exercises" and "seek expansion not only for the sake of size." Further, "we sh.. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 04c934c | The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today--Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia--even though the part that the very similar accidents of geology and river behavior played in their origins may have been long forgotten. | Simon Winchester | ||
| f19827c | Jonathan Swift mounted a lifelong attempt to 'fix our language forever'--no critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 91ccedb | Without haste, without fear, we conquer the world. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 8902074 | Defining words properly is a fine and peculiar craft. There are rules--a word (to take a noun as an example) must first be defined according to the class of things to which it belongs (mammal, quadruped), and then differentiated from other members of that class (bovine, female). There must be no words in the definition that are more complicated or less likely to be known that the word being defined. The definition must say what something is.. | Simon Winchester | ||
| d58fa6b | The word grammar--the first step in the course of classical study that molded all educated men from Plato to Augustine--will be mispronounced by one barbarian tribe as "glamour." In other words, whoever has grammar--whoever can read--possesses magic inexplicable." | Thomas Cahill | ||
| a6528ce | I see a sweet country. I could rest my weapon there. | Thomas Cahill | ||
| b42bd6b | We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed. | Thomas Cahill |