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| 3f0920b | Exhausted, hardly knowing what she was doing, she came the last three steps and sat, took the man in her arms, actually held him, gazing out of her smudged eyes down the stairs, back into the morning. She felt wetness against her breast and saw that he was crying again. He hardly breathed but tears came as if being pumped. "I can't help," she whispered, rocking him, "I can't help." It was already too many miles to Fresno." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| f618493 | But out under the Moon, Chestnut Ridge and Cheat behind them, and Monongahela to cross, into an Overture of meadow to the Horizon, low-lands become to them a dream whilst under a Spell, the way it gives back the Light, the way it withholds its Shadows,-- who might not come to believe in an Eternal West? In a Momentum that bears all away? "Men are remov'd by it, and women, from where they were,-- as if surrender'd to a great current of Weste.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 34bde5f | Decisions are never really made--at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all-round assholery. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 18521fb | Now single up all lines! | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6272795 | Mason recalls well enough that autumn of '56, when the celebrated future Martyr of Quebec, with six companies of Infantry, occupied that unhappy Town after wages were all cut in half, and the master weavers began to fiddle the Chain on the Bar, and a weaver was lucky to earn tuppence for eight hours' work. Mason in those same Weeks was preparing to leave the Golden Valley, to begin his job as Bradley's assistant, even as Soldiers were beati.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 0b746e0 | Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| fb2e587 | grownups acting like the worst kind of kids, kids acting like they knew what was going on. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 68527b2 | S]uppose we considered the war itself as a ? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| d12c15c | He didn't know whether he was planning seduction, or combat,-- these, at fourteen, being the only categories of Pleasure he recogniz'd. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6049533 | Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 390922b | Where may one breathe?" demands one Continental Macaroni, in a yellow waistcoat, "-- in New-York, Taverns have rooms where Smoke is prohibited." "Tho' clearly," replies the itinerant Stove-Salesman Mr. Whitpot, drawing vigorously at his Pipe, "what's needed is a No-Idiots Area." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| c855c60 | Perhaps her mind would go on flexing psychic muscles that no longer existed; would be betrayed and mocked by a phantom self as the amputee is by a phantom limb. Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 33fa56a | Destiny awaits, a darkness latent in the texture of the summer wind. Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Burgerlichkeit as our father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river -- dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. .. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 91cbf57 | Fuck you," whispers Slothrop. It's the only spell he knows, and a pretty good all-purpose one at that." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 8ce2596 | C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ad53d30 | Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red at its edges, and further in the brown and gold clouds... Then, suddenly, night: The empty rocking chair lit staring chalk blue by--is it the moon, or some other light in the sky? just the hard chair, empty now, in the very clear night, and this cold light coming down... The imag.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| beddf41 | Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart. In theory they both knew she had to move on, though all he wanted right now was to wait, even just another day. But he knew that feeling, and he guessed it would pass. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 7f2cf9a | How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6fcf34c | If economic power in a country becomes too unevenly distributed, political consequences will follow. While we typically think of the rule of law as being designed to protect the weak against the strong, and ordinary citizens against the privileged, those with wealth will use their political power to shape the rule of law to provide a framework within which they can exploit others.9 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 83f7608 | The other vision is of a society where the gap between the haves and the have-nots has been narrowed, where there is a sense of shared destiny, a common commitment to opportunity and fairness, where the words "liberty and justice for all" actually mean what they seem to mean, where we take seriously the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which emphasizes the importance not just of civil rights but of economic rights, and not just the ri.. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 5e52d98 | 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 | ||
| df70951 | As we look out at the world, the United States not only has the highest level of inequality among the advanced industrial countries, but the level of its inequality is increasing in absolute terms relative to that in other countries. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 6854e7b | It's expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| b056ac2 | As medical care has improved, life expectancy has increased--on average, in the United States, by some two years between 1990 and 2000. But for the poorest group of Americans there has been no progress, and for poor women life expectancy has actually been declining. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 27bd30b | The United States was the most unequal of the advanced industrial countries in the mid-1980s, and it has maintained that position.92 In fact, the gap between it and many other countries has increased: from the mid-1980s France, Hungary, and Belgium have seen no significant increase in inequality, while Turkey and Greece have actually seen a decrease in inequality. We are now approaching the level of inequality that marks dysfunctional socie.. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| ac4b9a9 | Countries around the world provide frightening examples of what happens to societies when they reach the level of inequality toward which we are moving. It is not a pretty picture: countries where the rich live in gated communities, waited upon by hordes of low-income workers; unstable political systems where populists promise the masses a better life, only to disappoint. Perhaps most importantly, there is an absence of hope. In these count.. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 2741833 | Today, China alone holds more than $1 trillion in public and private American IOUs. Cumulative borrowing from abroad during the six years of the Bush administration amounts to some $5 trillion. Most likely these creditors will not call in their loans--if they ever did, there would be a global financial crisis. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 1fc6ed9 | a) Recent U.S. income growth primarily occurs at the top 1 percent of the income distribution. (b) As a result there is growing inequality. (c) And those at the bottom and in the middle are actually worse-off today than they were at the beginning of the century. (d) Inequalities in wealth are even greater than inequalities in income. (e) Inequalities are apparent not just in income but in a variety of other variables that reflect standards .. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| dcaba27 | I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| f8a9457 | Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 20171fc | The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep. Doust's recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from s.. | boy-on-a-wire jon-doust | Jon Doust | |
| f98cacc | It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he--they--had grown weary and inflexible. During | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b721fe9 | I seriously think he's one of those dudes where, his whole life, he's gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he's tall. Anyway, | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| cb78a26 | It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d1ec2bc | It was one thing for a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then to back away. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8946d4f | The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 64616b9 | Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy?" Liz asked." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d95e32f | Upon receiving that text from Georgie, she had, of course, wondered, Heard what? But she'd quickly gone from wondering to suspecting that she knew to being certain. Never would she have leapt to a conclusion this way when writing an article, never would she have allowed a fact to be alluded to without clarification. Trust but verify--that's what she'd have done. Yet not once in the past three months had she even attempted clarification. How.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 96dd76e | Since Liz's adolescence, when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children, or on spotting merchandise in stores that honored this unique bond with poems or effusive declarations--picture frames, magnets, oven mitts--she had felt like a foreign exchange student observing the customs of another country. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 606fd44 | she was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 5ba1b01 | She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| c02271e | There are, I have learned, so many gifts of motherhood, and so many sadnesses, and one of the sadnesses is the asymmetry of the family experience: that in spite of all the daily nuisances, and in spite of the unforgivable way I transgressed, these years of the children being little are the sweetest time in my life. And yet, for Rosie and Owen and Gabe, these won't be their best years. They'll grow up and go away, they'll find spouses and ha.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| c3b5c79 | I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 4c74b21 | The tarps Ken Weinrich's crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings. | Curtis Sittenfeld |