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| 2b226f0 | There's only one good aspect to it," says Joe. "You may get his job. And if you have any luck, maybe you'll fall down the elevator shaft and break your neck too. We'll buy you a nice wreath, I promise you that." | Henry Miller | ||
| 7e2f8bf | A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize. | food photosynthesis transhuman transhumanism | Tsutomu Nihei | |
| 004af5d | Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment. | marriage | Mike Mason | |
| 918c9c8 | although I was as zealous in my anti-faith as Paul was in his belief I would be lying if I did not confess to a slight chink in my armour of nonbelief. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 00875a5 | That is why Lawrence, like Rilke, hated photographs of himself. To both writers photographs prefigured an end of becoming. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 2971c88 | There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative. | optimism progress | Geoff Dyer | |
| f0996de | I've always been intimidated by gyms, have never been able to enjoy the towel-round-the-shoulder confidence of somebody who knows he can bench-press 250 pounds, or even knows what that means or how much 250 pounds weighs. I just know I don't like lifting heavy things, especially since I had this wrist injury which stopped me playing tennis and which means that I've gone from being fit and thin-looking to just a feeble streak of unshouldered.. | inspirational | Geoff Dyer | |
| f7c4156 | Instead of spending his afternoons prowling the parks and jerking off like this he should have been working on his French, which was so poor that even the simplest tasks - deciphering menus, buying bleach to clean out the toilet, ordering sandwiches - became major exercises in pantomime diplomacy. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| e47164a | Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 151d43c | He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself. | leadership respect | Geoff Dyer | |
| 9d3c7ca | If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff | memories teamwork | Geoff Dyer | |
| f16bbd7 | In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is prohibited." In such a society there would be no more essays on whether Hamlet was mad or only pretending to be, no reviews of the latest exhibitions or novels, no profiles of writers or artists. There would be no secondary, or parasitic, discussion - let alone tertiary: commentary on commentary. We would have, .. | criticism jazz | Geoff Dyer | |
| f77f061 | People realize that a life that had seemed enjoyable (travel, social life, romance) and fulfilling (work) was actually empty and meaningless. So they urge you to join the child-rearing party: they want you to share the riches, the pleasures, the joys. Or so they claim. I suspect that hey just want to share and spread the misery. (The knowledge that someone is at liberty or has escaped makes the pain of incarceration doubly hard to bear). Of.. | humor life-lessons | Geoff Dyer | |
| da3e701 | So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war -- which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell -- seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively. | retrospection war wwi | Geoff Dyer | |
| 9c713cf | It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 5d6a347 | Sexual intercourse was taboo on the Lord's Day. The Puritans believed that children were born on the same day of the week as when they had been conceived. Unlucky infants who entered the world on the Sabbath were sometimes denied baptism because of their parents' presumed sin in copulating on a Sunday. For many years Sudbury's minister Israel Loring sternly refused to baptize children born on Sunday, until one terrible Sabbath when his own .. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 32664d7 | This idea of collective liberty also was expressed in many bizarre obligations which New England towns collectively imposed upon their members. Eastham's town meeting, for example, ordered that no single man could marry until he had killed six blackbirds or three crows. Every town book contained many such rules.4 The General Court also passed sweeping statutes which allowed the magistrates to suppress almost any act, by any means. One such .. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 79a220c | That case was not unique in the sexual history of New Haven. When a second deformed pig was born in that troubled town, another unfortunate eccentric was also accused of bestiality by his neighbors. Even though he could not be convicted under the two-witness rule, he was imprisoned longer than anybody else in the history of the colony. When yet a third defective piglet was born with one red eye and what appeared to be a penis growing out of.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 2f1a860 | There was no heat in these buildings, partly because the earliest meetinghouses also served as powder magazines, and fires threatened to blow the entire congregation to smithereens. They were bitter cold in winter. Many tales were told of frozen communion bread, frostbitten fingers, baptisms performed with chunks of ice and entire congregations with chattering teeth that sounded like a field of crickets. It was a point of honor for the mini.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| fe64ed2 | threatened. As late as 1775, townsmen within twenty miles of the sea were urged to carry arms to church lest godless British raiding parties surprise them while at worship. After the service, the men left the meeting first--a regional folkway that continued long after its military origins had been forgotten. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| ad3b318 | Many activities were forbidden on the Sabbath: work, play, and unnecessary travel. Even minor instances of Sabbath-breaking were punished with much severity. The Essex County Court indicted a man for carrying a burden on the Sabbath, and punished a woman for brewing on the Lord's Day. When Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, fell into a forty-foot well, his rescuers stopped digging on Saturday afternoon while they debated whether it.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| 184408b | He was polishing the glass with a dead hen. | James Herriot | ||
| 38d6083 | All young animals are appealing but the lamb has been given an unfair share of charm. | James Herriot | ||
| 1574d48 | without warning, the thermometer disappeared from my fingers. Some sudden suction had drawn it inside the cow. I ran my fingers round just inside the rectum--nothing; I pushed my hand inside without success; with a feeling of rising panic I rolled up my sleeve and groped about in vain. | James Herriot | ||
| eaf643b | Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a tempestuous suitor there was nothing flighty about him and he was confidently expected to pop the question over the next ten years or so. Mr. | James Herriot | ||
| 656c057 | I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian. | James Herriot | ||
| 2977dc2 | But cruel fate had not finished with us yet. My colleague's gasps and grunts from the rear ceased for a moment to be replaced by a horrified shriek. "The bloody thing's shitting, Jim! She's shitting everywhere!" | James Herriot | ||
| 9f1139a | And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress. | James Herriot | ||
| 422768b | Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again. | James Herriot | ||
| 4a97137 | She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 96cda17 | Nothing more likely,"said Hannasyde. "I've got to try and rattle him." "It's him that'll do the rattling,"said the Sergeant darkly. "he's the nearest thing to a snake I've seen outside of the Zoo." -- | humor humour | Georgette Heyer | |
| ee640c6 | No one knows better than I how unworthy I am.' A sentimental sigh and an inarticulate murmur from Selina showed that this frank avowal had moved her profoundly. Upon Abby it had a different effect. 'Trying to take the wind out of my eye, Mr Calverleigh?' she said. If he was disconcerted he did not betray it, but answered immediately: 'No, but, perhaps - the words out of your mouth?' Privately, she gave him credit for considerable adroitness.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e82d0d2 | I must own, too, that I can't be astonished at his being vexed to death over this business. It is excessively awkward! However, he doesn't lay the blame for that at my door: you mustn't think that!" "I should think not indeed!" exclaimed Anthea between amusement and indignation. "How could he possibly do so?" "No, very true, my love!" agreed Mrs Darracott. "I thought that myself, but it did put me on the fidgets when Richmond said he wanted.. | humour regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| a2ee151 | They must have had a great deal of practice, though I don't think it can be wholly due to practice, do you? I never met a rake before, or thought much about it, but I should suppose that a man could scarcely become one - well, not a very successful one, at all events - if he were not naturally engaging. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b99364b | The most she could wring from him was a promise that he would say nothing uncivil to Mrs Scorrier unless she offered him provocation, and with this she had to try at least to be satisfied. But as what Aubrey might regard as provocation depended to a large extent upon his mood her expectations were not high; | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ae2c3e1 | There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 70d5394 | Meg, as good-natured as her mother and brother, would have been amiable to anyone for whom her kindness had been solicited. Had she found herself confronted by a dazzling blonde she would not have spurned Kitty; but it could not be denied that the discovery that Miss Charing was a brunette immediately confirmed her in her conviction that she would like her prodigiously. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0af69d9 | it is so stupid to say, as Edward does, that Aubrey ought to like what he detests, because other boys do. Aubrey is himself, and no one can alter him, so what is the use of saying he ought, when he won't? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a3c6c9b | Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2ce8492 | In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors | manga rurouni-kenshin samurai shounen | Nobuhiro Watsuki | |
| 54b6dab | She could only marvel at him. She had never possessed the key to his mind, and what circumstance it was that made him now so calmly confident was beyond her power to fathom. She did not believe him to be desperately in love with her; she could only suppose that having once made up his mind that she was the wife that would best suit him he had either grown too accustomed to the idea to be able easily to relinquish it, or that the good opinio.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2ab9d65 | This embittered thought brought to her mind the several occasions upon which she might, had she been the kind of female his lordship no doubt admired, have kindled his ardour by a display of sensibility, or even of heroism ... To have thrown herself between the foils, when she had surprised the Earl fencing with Martin, would certainly have been spectacular, but that it would have evoked anything but exasperation in the male breast she was .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6810082 | My goddess! My queen!' 'Oh, no, no, no!' He raised his head, smiling a little crookedly down at her. 'Do you dislike to hear yourself called so? There is nothing I would not do to please you, but you cannot help but be my goddess! You have been so these seven years!' 'Only a goddess could dislike it! You see by that how wretchedly short of the mark I fall. I have a little honesty - enough to tell you *now* that you must not worship me.' He .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0f1d004 | Humble myself? 'Fore Gad, you must be mad!" "Belike I am; but I tell you Tracy, that if your passion is love, 'tis a strange one that puts yourself first. I would not give a snap of a finger for it! You want this girl, not for her happiness, but for your own pleasure. That is not the love I once told you would save you from yourself. When it comes, you will count yourself as naught; you will realise your own insignificance, and above all, b.. | love | Georgette Heyer |