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| b8efb36 | But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who hadn't felt the sudden loss of a child could ever even approximate the stabbing ache that came with every breath. I | Gregg Olsen | ||
| da72b44 | The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 758dd34 | Mary Kay would come home after being two hours late and sit in her car for a half hour and go through mail and papers, and I'd be just sitting there waiting to go home. After the kids were sleeping... I was just sitting there. She would irritate me. ~Angie | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 8ba917d | If she pleaded not guilty, David said she could suggest that the boy had been the agressor, or maybe it was all some teenage fantasy that went too far. Maybe the sex never really happened. Mary Kay saw that scenario as ridiculous. Almost laughable. She didn't think it would work. "I'm carrying his baby," she said. Scratch that." | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 85680a6 | It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable." -- | David Allen Sibley | ||
| 27084b5 | He found that when the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team--once described as the national team of French Canada--got knocked out of the playoffs early between 1951 and 1992, Quebecois males aged fifteen to thirty-four became more likely to kill themselves. Robert Fernquist, a sociologist at the University of Central Missouri, went further. He studied thirty American metropolitan areas with professional sports teams from 1971 to 1990 and sho.. | Simon Kuper | ||
| ccdf3ff | When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst, in point of fact, the geographical position of the country which he is unable to change, a social condition which arose without his co-operation, manners and opinions which he cannot trace to their source, and an origin with which he is unacquainted, exercise so irresistible an infl.. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| d238f8c | Giraffes are famous for long necks, but their 20-inch (50cm) tongues are also impressive. These gentle herbivores spend most of their time eating, consuming hundreds of pounds of leaves each week and traveling miles to find enough food. Given that they eat for hours, the darker coloring of their tongues helps prevent sunburn! Giraffe tongues have also developed a thick skin and exceptional dexterity as protection against the vicious thorns .. | National Geographic Society | ||
| c489a08 | May 27: Marilyn poses nude for Tom Kelley's calendar photographs while listening to Artie Shaw. She is given a fifty-dollar flat fee for signing a contract, using the name Mona Monroe. Altogether Kelley takes shots of twenty-four poses, although only two are published, titled "A New Wrinkle" and "Golden Dreams." | Carl Rollyson | ||
| aac4309 | The only tragic part of the making of was Jean Marais's terrible make-up which used to take five hours and from which he emerged as though after a surgical operation. Laurence Olivier said to me one day that he would never have had the strength to undergo such torture. I maintain that it took Marais's passion for his profession and his love for his dog to have persisted with such fortitude to pass from the human race into the animal one. .. | Jean Cocteau | ||
| 4cc290d | If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. | Bob Dylan | ||
| cd997d6 | I'm having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, 'Oy Tony!' I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see Michael Gambon in the lunch queue. ... Gambon tells me the story of Olivier auditioning him at the Old Vic in 1962. His audition speech was from Richard III. 'See, Tone, I was thick as two short planks then and I didn't know he'd had a rather notable success in the part. I was just shitting myself about meeting the Great Man. H.. | michael-gambon shakespeare | Antony Sher | |
| a876090 | February 11: Andre de Dienes sends Marilyn a telegram calling her "Turkey Foot," his nickname for her: "STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF. GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. LET'S GO DRIVING AND HIKING THROUGH THE REDWOODS, INCOGNITO, AND TAKE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES LIKE NOBODY COULD EVER TAKE. IT WILL CURE YOU OF ALL YOUR ILLS. CALL ME UP. LOVE." Nan Taylor, the wife of Frank Taylor, producer of The Misfits, writes to Marilyn: "It seems to me again, as it.. | Carl Rollyson | ||
| 86699c6 | January 23: Niagara is released, making Marilyn a star. She plays Rose Loomis, a femme fatale. The picture features her 116-foot walk to the falls. | Carl Rollyson | ||
| 22e863f | Let them use at home economy where it is a virtue, but do not let them disgrace themselves abroad by narrowness....What a fool do I look like to be accoutered and stand here for 4 hours only to be spoken to by royalty. | Lynne Withey | ||
| 36d5c8a | Car, si je considerais l'homme surtout en termes psychologiques, Smith l'evaluait en termes sociaux et Terron en termes mythiques. Ce qui provoquait en moi une quete irritee de certitude, une insecurite qui me mettait nettement mal a l'aise. | Russell Banks | ||
| be3e10e | Bien que Terron fut un homme qu'apparemment je ne pouvais appeler autrement qu'un fanatique religieux ; bien qu'il menat sa vie d'une maniere qui m'etait encore plus etrangere que celle de M. Mann ; et bien que souvent je fusse arrive a conclure, presque contre ma volonte, qu'il n'etait qu'un arnaqueur ruse de campagne en train d'exploiter mon curieux melange de culpabilite (le raciste americain en moi) et d'amour pour l'esoterique (l'intel.. | Russell Banks | ||
| a8e01ef | It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know. | Russell Banks | ||
| 3cc8b5e | La difference, evidemment, etait qu'ils avaient appris plusieurs siecles auparavant quelque chose que moi, descendant d'un peuple incomparablement plus favorise, je n'avais jamais ete oblige d'acquerir. Ils avaient appris a survivre. La survie etait pour moi un fait qui m'etait accorde d'avance, et il etait donc plus que vraisemblable que dans des circonstances analogues je serais incapable de survivre. Je deviendrais le vieux bougon, l'hom.. | Russell Banks | ||
| c771c1f | He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work. | Russell Banks | ||
| df4dd3a | It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you. | Russell Banks | ||
| 5066f72 | Since my adolescence I have read two and sometimes three newspapers a day, frequently clipping an article that for obscure and soon forgotten reasons attracts me. I usually toss the clippings into a desk drawer, and later, often years later, I'll find myself reading through the clippings, throwing most of them out. It fills me with a strange sadness, a kind of grief for my lost self, as if I were reading and throwing out old diaries. | Russell Banks | ||
| 23147de | In some countries, I said to myself, the only life you can properly desire is that of destroyer. | Russell Banks | ||
| 699d6c7 | We pass between sea and sky with unaccountable, humiliating ease, as if there were no firmament between the firmaments, no above or below, here or there, now or then, with only the feeble conventions of language, our contrived principles, and our love of one another's light to keep our own light from going out; abandon any one of them, and we dissolve in darkness like salt in water. | Russell Banks | ||
| 7ccd62c | nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed. | reading | Scott Russell Sanders | |
| b6c226f | Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 737a0f3 | Negro society, she had learned, was as complicated and as rigid in its ramifications as the highest strata of white society. If you couldn't prove your ancestry and connections, you were tolerated, but you didn't "belong." | Nella Larsen | ||
| c966b2d | Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price. | Nella Larsen | ||
| d9026c6 | It was the most brilliant exhibition of conversational weightlifting that Irene had ever seen. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 87844fc | She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her. | irritation personality self-sufficiency sensitivity sociability standoffishness | Nella Larsen | |
| d688ff5 | Not so lonely that that old, queer, unhappy restlessness had begun again within him; that craving for some place strange and different, which at the beginning of her marriage she had had to make such strenuous efforts to repress, and which yet faintly alarmed her, though it now sprang up at gradually lessening intervals. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 7804948 | No, certainly he didn't. Not actually. He couldn't, not very well, since he didn't know. But he would have. It amounts to the same thing. And I'm sure it was just as unpleasant. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 4f3aec0 | Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child. New | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 1a9960d | This brings us to a further aspect of the doctrine of Tikkun, which is also the most important for the system of practical theosophy. The process in which God conceives, brings forth and develops himself does not reach its final conclusion in God. Certain parts of the process of restitution are allotted to man. Not all the lights which are held in captivity by the powers of darkness are set free by their own efforts; it is man who adds the .. | judaism kabbalah mysticism | Gershom Scholem | |
| 18f58a0 | On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or "Middle Passage," as it was called by European slavers, was notorious for the number of deaths incurred, averaging in the vicinity of 15-20 per cent. There were also numerous deaths in Africa between time of capture and time of embarkation, esp.. | development europe history legacy loss slave-trade | Walter Rodney | |
| fe2cfc7 | If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited me. And I had suspected as much before I arrived. Being a stranger concerns not only matters of familiarity, belonging, and exclusion but as well involves a particular relation to the past. If the past is another country, then I am its citizen. I am the relic of an experience most preferred not to remember, as if the sheer will.. | Saidiya V. Hartman | ||
| 2f9987a | Ser Osmund Strong was the king's fourth Hand. His first had been Lord Orys Baratheon, his bastard half-brother and companion of his youth, but Lord Orys was taken captive during the Dornish War and suffered the loss of his sword hand. Aegon next called on Edmyn Tully, Lord of Riverrun, to take up the Handship. Lord Edmyn served from 7-9 AC, but when his wife died in childbed, he decided that his children had more need of him than the realm,.. | fire-and-blood | George R.R. Martin | |
| d9345e7 | When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities must be the result of racial discrimination. Committed to this antiracist idea of group equality, I was able to self-critique, discover, and shed the racist ideas I had consumed over my lifetime when I uncovered and exposed the racist ideas that others have produced over the lifetime of America. I know that readers truly committed to racia.. | Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| cfdcacc | Because of Columbus's exaggerated report and promises, his second expedition was given seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men. The aim was clear: slaves and gold. They went from island to island in the Caribbean, taking Indians as captives. But as word spread of the Europeans' intent they found more and more empty villages. On Haiti, they found that the sailors left behind at Fort Navidad had been killed in a battle with the India.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 261ce2f | The city had changed beyond recognition. Wrecking balls and bulldozers had leveled the old buildings to rubble. The dust of construction hung permanently over the streets. Gated mansions reached up to the northern foothills, while slums fanned out from the city's southern limits. I feared an aged that had lost its heart, and I was terrified at the thought of so many useless hands. Our traditions were our pacifiers and we put ourselves to s.. | ginsberg howl poetry | Jasmin Darznik | |
| a8d8307 | So much of the pornography addiction for men comes from this. It's not about sex--it's about validation. She makes him feel like a man. She offers him her beauty, and it makes him feel strong. This is also the root of most affairs. Some woman comes along and offers to answer his Question. His wife has been giving him an F, and she comes along and says, "You're an A to me," and he's history. If he hasn't found that deep validation he needs f.. | John Eldredge | ||
| 0312bd9 | Eisenhower was determined to avoid a direct confrontation with the Soviets. It is unlikely he would have sent American armed forces unilaterally. Yet something could have been done through international organizations, especially if nonaligned nations like India could have been brought on board. In the event, nothing was done. The message to other "captive peoples" was clear: if you rebel, the United States will not help you, and the Soviets.. | Alex von Tunzelmann | ||
| 94cd71c | Tradition | F.E. Peters | ||
| 110ae04 | One of the first things that strikes us about the men and women in Scripture is that they were disappointingly non- heroic. We do not find splendid moral examples. We do not find impeccably virtuous models. That always comes as a shock to newcomers to Scripture: Abraham lied; Jacob cheated; Moses murdered and complained; David committed adultery; Peter blasphemed. | Eugene H. Peterson |