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| ef74d76 | My wife's name was Mala. The marriage had been arranged by my older brother and his wife. I regarded the proposition with neither objection nor enthusiasm. It was a duty expected of me, as it was expected of every man. She was the daughter of a schoolteacher in Beleghata. I was told that she could cook, knit, embroider, sketch landscapes, and recite poems by Tagore, but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| bea8c34 | Growing inequality, combined with a flawed system of campaign finance, risks turning America's legal system into a travesty of justice. Some may still call it the "rule of law," but in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it." | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 100469b | Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 5090ea7 | it's easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 5a40269 | At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 4e02ec5 | She'd told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she went. She said that her mother's absence would always be present in her thoughts. She told Bela that there would never be an answer for why she'd gone. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 48ddde1 | Hicbir seyi ozledigin bir seyden daha fazla sevemezsin. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fa32044 | See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 4f9187d | Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 6aecbeb | I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?" | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0fd4a06 | I knew all this, I understood the rules, but still, nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b922419 | People are complicated," she continued, "and the ones who aren't are boring." "Then maybe I'm boring." We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, "Maybe you are." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 523034b | I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped.. | elections politician-s-wife politics | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| cd5f28e | For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| e3aad99 | In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 34e209b | But the truth was that I didn't want to stay in Riley. The pulls of familial love and obligation could not, for the moment, compete with the promise of early-relationship sex. Starlight and beer and our twisting, naked bodies--that was what I wanted, not a seat at a dining room table with two old women eating breaded veal cutlets and Vienna torte. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| bac0a3d | She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| ac5f3b4 | In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 37defb4 | It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| c6839ff | In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 76cbc34 | Dintre toate locurile prin care am fost in toata viata mea, Ault a fost spatial cu cea mai mare densitate de oameni de care ma puteam indragosti. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 6c75ec7 | Cu ani mai tarziu, la o nunta, l-am auzit pe preot descriind casnicia ca pe o frangere in doua a tristetii si o dublare a bucuriei, si nu mi-a trecut prin minte nici tipul cu care eram atunci si nici vreun sot perfect, imaginar, din viitorul meu; in schimb, m-am gandit imediat la Matha. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b00ad2a | In camine, unii dintre elevi se apucasera deja sa impacheteze, lucru pe care eu il uram - vedeam peretii goi si suprafetele lipsite de obiecte ca pe niste aluzii rauvoitoare la cat de efemer era totul in jur, cat de iluzorie era senzatia pe care o avem ca ne apartine vreodata ceva. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 2a612be | If I moved back, I'm sure I'd find some great place to live. I wouldn't have to make a reservation to take a spin class or wait in line just to get into the grocery store. But then I'd look up one day and be like, 'What the fuck have I done?' | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| acd1b80 | Plus, it made me nervous, because was this the time in my own life before I found someone to love and had a family and looked back longingly on my youthful freedom? Or was it the beginning of what my life would be like forever? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 06c97e6 | There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 4d4e461 | Here's what I've learned about the people in this city," Darcy was saying. "They grade their women on a curve. If someone is described as sophisticated, it means once during college she visited Paris, and if someone is described as beautiful, it means she's fifteen pounds overweight instead of forty. And" | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d67ced6 | Just as some people enjoy knitting in front of the television, Mrs. Bennet was fond of perusing housewares catalogs; indeed, the sound of pages turning, that quick flap when no item caught her eye and the pauses when something did, the occasional businesslike lick of the index finger, was one of the essential sounds of Liz's childhood. This habit was also, apparently, what allowed Mrs. Bennet to maintain a belief that she had not actually ".. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| fd9fce2 | He's a lawyer in Atlanta, and he's very active in his church," Mrs. Bennet said. "If that's not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don't know what is." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 7c15ca9 | It was generally less shocking to Liz that twenty years after high school she was still her essential self, the self she'd grown up as, unencumbered by spouse or child, than that nearly everyone else had changed, moved on, and multiplied. After | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 5b007cc | Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander! She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 4d55232 | Because honestly, to this day, I don't really know what made him interested in me. It's not that I hate myself, at least not most of the time - it's just that it wouldn't have been difficult for Jason to find a woman who was prettier, or more of a fighter for the underdog, or both. The one time I asked him about it, and I tried to ask as casually, as unpathetically, as possible, given that it's an inherently pathetic question, he said, "Bec.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 2ec7549 | The next time she visits her father she'll speak to him in English. Were her mother ever to stand before her, even if Bela could choose any language on earth in which to speak, she would have nothing to say. But no, that's not true. She remains in constant communication with her. Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 2170456 | He regretted his surliness when she had refused. She was the only person he'd met in his adult life who had any understanding of his past, the only woman he wanted to remain connected to. He didn't want to leave it up to chance to find her again, didn't want to share her with another man. That last day in Volterra he had searched for a way to tell her these things. She had not accused him, as Franca had, of his own cowardice, of his inabili.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 1adc9ec | No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change. | waiting | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 5de4b48 | Bilmezlik ve umut icinde gonullu bir beklenti hali... Iste boyle yasiyordu cogu insan. | lowland roman saçında-gün-ışığı | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 80d8074 | she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good. | mistakes the-human-condition | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 3093a4d | YOU WILL DRINK THE COFFEE UNTIL I CAN SEE MY FACE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP!" I did not mean to roar. "But it's a clay cup." "I DO NOT CARE!" He finished the coffee. "You did not have to finish it," I said, because I could perceive that he was rebuilding the Great Wall of China with shit bricks." | funny | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 266fac6 | des verstorbenen Philosophen Pinchas T., der in seiner einzigen bedeutenden Abhandlung "An den Staub: vom Menschen bist du, und zum Menschen sollst du werden" argumentierte, es sei theoretisch moglich, das Leben und die Kunst gegeneinander auszutauschen." -- | kunst leben philosophie staub | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 816402a | What about the teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a7f2e36 | Regarding US government recommendations that tend to encourage dairy consumption in the name of preventing osteoporosis, Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet, people often have less osteoporosis and fewer bone fractures than Americans do. The highest rates of osteoporosis are seen in countries where people consume the most dairy foods. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9791a67 | Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!" | someting undressing | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 59eeb30 | De Verenigde Naties vatten de milieueffecten van de vleesindustrie als volgt samen: Het fokken van dieren voor de voedselproductie (ongeacht of dat in de bio-industrie of op traditionele wijze gebeurt) 'is een van de drie belangrijkste oorzaken van de meest bedreigende milieuproblemen, op elke schaal, lokaal of wereldwijd. De veeteelt zou een van de belangrijkste aandachtspunten moeten zijn als het gaat om problemen als verschraling, klimaa.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a9575e4 | And instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs. | Jonathan Safran Foer |