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| 5bc00fd | All the bright people, stopped in the midst of life, looking with forced smile into the lenses, then to be filed away, their colors fading as the years pass, caught there in slide trays, stack loads, view cubes, until one day the camera person dies and the grandchild says, "Mom, I don't know any of these people. Or where these were taken even. There are jillions of them here in this big box and more in the closet. What will I do with them a.. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 145f816 | The ones that swear off, most of them they go back onto it sooner or later, get pig drunk and locked up." "Something special you've got against drunks, Sheriff?" "Married to one for a long time. Too long. She finally drove into a tree one night." | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 4bf2a37 | The intelligence of a mob can be determined by dividing the lowest IQ present by the number of people in the mob. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| e4b3681 | It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting. | world salvage-consultancy | John D. MacDonald | |
| 2e22af9 | There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units o.. | capitalism consumerism technology | John D. MacDonald | |
| 8881425 | You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance for thirty years. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 0ef798e | It was to have been a quiet evening at home. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 56f50dd | But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine? | David Henry Hwang | ||
| a42d2b6 | Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it. | happiness rare protection | David Henry Hwang | |
| 2499987 | You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever. | romance | Agatha Christie | |
| 07543e4 | Caroline is the lady who cooks for me. Incidentally she is the wife of my gardener. What kind of a wife she makes I do not know, but she is an excellent cook. James, on the other hand, is not a good gardener--but I support him in idleness and give him the lodge to live in solely on account of Caroline's cooking. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 09820c7 | I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c81251b | I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person." | Agatha Christie | ||
| e7896f3 | 'nt t`tqd 'nk t`jb blmyzt lkhlqy@ wlkn `ndm tq` fy lHb f'nt t`wd l~ fTrtk lbdy'y@ Hyth tkwn lqw@ ljsdy@ hy lmfDl@ | Agatha Christie | ||
| 43446bb | Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -" "And giraffes?" interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun of that giraffe. "And giraffes. They were nomadic, you see. It wasn't till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another, that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same - one feels .. | evolution love | Agatha Christie | |
| a7fcfca | n l`shq ytshjrwn dy'man l'nhm l yfhmwn b`Dhm, w`ndm y'ty lwqt ldhy yfhmwn fyh b`Dhm fnhm yfqdwn Hbhm | Agatha Christie | ||
| d8b7808 | 'tmn~ lw kn nstTy` 'n nt'kd mn 'n lns ldhyn yqtlwn hm mn ystHqwn lmwt, 'qSd hw'l ldhyn yrydwn lqtl wlys fqT lmskyn ldhyn y`yshwn fy lmnTq lty ydwr fyh lqtl | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5e8cb94 | Don't hiss at me, Pagett," I said, drawing back a little, "and do control your breathing. Your idea is absurd. Why should they want to have a secret meeting in the middle of the night? If they'd anything to say to each other, they could hobnob over beef tea in a perfectly casual and natural manner." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7217466 | nn l nmlk 'nfsn 'kthr mm nmlk m b'ydyn. nn lm nkhlq 'nfsn , wl nstTy` 'n n`lw `l~ 'nfsn. lsn sd@ `l~ 'nfsn. nHn mlk llh. 'lyst s`dtn dhn fy hdhh lnZr@ l~ lmwDw`? hl ns`d 'w nTmy'n dh Znn 'nn mlk l'nfsn? qd yHsb dhlk lshbb wlmtrfwn. qd yZn hw'l 'n tsyyr l'mwr `l~ hwhm - dwn l`tmd `l~ 'Hd - 'mr `Zym , fl yfkrwn fy shy' b`yd `n l'nZr , wykhlSwn mn mshq@ l`trf ldy'm , wlSl@ lmtSl@ , wnsb@ '`mlhm dy'm l~ rd@ Gyr rdthm . wlkn klm tqdm lzmn 'drkw .. | محمود محمود | ||
| ff565c0 | Heart Speaks Unto Heart. This motto of the Blessed John Henry Newman, adopted from St Francis de Sales, contains the essence of a 'philosophy of communication,' which is also a philosophy of education. If education is about the communication of values, or meaningful information, and of wisdom and of tradition, between persons and across generations, it is important to know that it can only take place in the heart; that is, in the center of .. | Stratford Caldecott | ||
| b1569aa | And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 953d5dc | La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Pareceria increible que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religion terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por supersticion, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invencion, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. Luego de abjurar de nuestro Senor y Salvador, | John Henry Newman | ||
| f8fe0d7 | The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 8fa7d94 | What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our | John Henry Newman | ||
| eb37b4d | Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman | John Henry Newman | ||
| b8fd3df | The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it. | John Henry Newman | ||
| b260cbe | The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with. | John Henry Newman | ||
| d6777a7 | Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 61ef0a7 | Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 2780fb8 | To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life. | holiness | John Henry Newman | |
| 0089f42 | My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears. | Andrea Levy | ||
| 3d0c844 | The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth." | Andrea Levy | ||
| 8444444 | Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville is shouted as the compositors search for as many cases of these types as can be found. But never is there enough of those metal letters. The apprentice is charged to clean the ones just used so he can distribute a constant supply, lest a compositor be forced into some fancy spelling for the want of Es. With his uppercase upper and his lowercase lower, the compositor, standing at his frame with his stick hel.. | Andrea Levy | ||
| 4727bde | A mass whose desperation made them seem like the feckless, and whose drab presence drained the classroom of all colours until even the white potties at the corner glinted like diamonds. I will never forgive Hitler for turning human beings into that. | Andrea Levy | ||
| 8db39ad | A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 4a2ce30 | the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be the mother of truth, but it can also give birth to illegitimate children. | politics perseverance-of-memory | Alberto Manguel | |
| 2b3c3eb | The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be a book, in spite of the endless gadgets and guises invented to force it into that role. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| b7d292e | Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such "ordainers of the universe" (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries." | cataloguing | Alberto Manguel | |
| 7a72cf3 | lqr@ mthl ltnfs;nh wZyf@ Hyty@ ssy@ | Alberto manguel | ||
| 7b05c50 | Noter nos impressions sur Hamlet apres une relecture annuelle, ecrivait Virginia Woolf, reviendrait a rediger notre autobiographie puisque des que nous en savons plus de la vie, Shakespeare commente ce que nous savons. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| fd7efa8 | Je me rendis compte que personne - pas meme mon pere, assis a quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait penetrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon ma propre volonte, ne pouvait en donner a quiconque la possibilite. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| df35d43 | lqn`@ t`ny nqSan m`ynan fy lfDwl. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| e220f78 | But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 2beefeb | Instead, I practiced different forms of reading. The possibilities offered by books are legion. The solitary relationship of a reader with his or her books breaks into dozens of further relationships: with friends upon whom we urge the books we like, with booksellers (the few who have survived in the Age of Supermarkets) who suggest new titles, with strangers for whom we might compile an anthology. As we read and reread over the years, thes.. | Alberto Manguel |