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| a848eb1 | It may be hard to convince ourselves that something we can't see, hear, touch, taste, or smell can still hurt us so dreadfully. Yet the fact must be faced, just as we've learned a healthy fear of nuclear radiation. Certain scientists, some perhaps acting in a program of deliberate disinformation, keep telling the public that we still don't know whether electropollution is a threat to human health. That's simply not true. Certainly we need t.. | Robert O. Becker | ||
| 215543e | For us military men, it is impossible to forget. | Andrei Grechko | ||
| 1419eec | Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither. | Belva Plain | ||
| 4c90a8d | During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it. | Alex D. Linz | ||
| 80af34c | overboard, | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 60ca728 | will-have a tendency to | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 592afeb | Angeles in the plain-clothes division, | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 2f6bcad | as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 4e12d25 | I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues." "I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a virtue." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| b9d822f | appraisal was evident in his glance. "Well, then," he said, "let's hear about" | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 6f86ade | Clinton Foley is living?" "Of course he's living. He's living next door" | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 3ada802 | You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money. | private-investigators | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| d3f507c | Events are like telephone poles, streaming back past the observation platform of a speeding train. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 95d209d | Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress | private-investigator | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| dbd9511 | You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| a1fd219 | And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he's defeated at the next election. If he builds up a political machine, he has to do it by distributing gravy to the boys who are on the inside.--Hell, Donald, politicians always have cake. The people pass it to them on silver platters, and when the politicians cut it, they have to cut a piece for each of their friends. Otherwise, the friend.. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 21f98ad | We have graft today. A hundred years ago we had graft. We probably have more today than we had a hundred years ago. For three generations now people have been following reformers, fighting all sort of graft.--And what has it brought them, sweetheart? Not a damn thing, except more graft than when they started | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 98043dd | Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion because the politicians quit pouring the soda bicarbonate of publicity into their stomachs. At the end of eight years, they vomit him up in order to swallow someone else, | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| a98c399 | did you ever hear of a politician who wasn't elected on a platform of economy in office?" "That isn't it," I said. "Oh yes it is, lover. I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising economy, and still it wasn't new. They'd always hold up the extravagances of the past administration before the horrified eyes of the voters. They'd pledge greater economy and get elected.--And there's never a case on record, lover, where a .. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| fe9e061 | Mason." Mauvis" | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| f8e264b | Della Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, said, "A couple of lovebirds have strayed into the office without an appointment. They insist it's a matter of life and death." "Everything is," Mason said. "If you start with the idea of perpetuating life, you must accept the inevitable corollary of death--but I presume these people aren't interested in my philosophical ideas." "These people," | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 54535e1 | pool our information," Dimmick said, "to work out a joint plan of campaign." "Thank you, I don't think I'd care to do that," Mason told him. "I want to be free to represent my client in whatever way seems best as the situation develops." "Can't you see, Mr. Dimmick," Rodney Cuff said impatiently, "he's going to pin the whole thing on Driscoll if he has a" -- | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 173c85d | However, as a true scientist, Dr. Ford is utterly indifferent to public praise on the one hand, or public criticism on the other. He only wants to satisfy his own conscience. What people may then say or think is of no concern. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 5342f1b | PHOTOGRAPH | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| ccc060b | people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| b453491 | The secretary was a good-looking girl--or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 39b8e08 | If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals. | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 49a9e9a | calling for | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 9abed1b | Cook advised aspiring authors against waiting for inspiration, which he believed to be the last resort of the lazy writer. He himself had written two 33,000-word stories a week for months at a time. And this was precisely the schedule Gardner set for | Francis L. Fugate | ||
| a2645d8 | of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. "There's not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley was in a drugstore having" | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| 0990771 | He called the police and told them I was trying to blackmail him." "Were you?" "Not exactly. Bertha was trying to cut herself a piece of cake, and--" "And what?" I asked. "And the knife slipped," she said." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| e4e87fd | Football, bloody hell! | Alex Ferguson | ||
| 52bf54a | That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano. | Alex Ferguson | ||
| dc3bba8 | well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen, | Susan Kandel | ||
| 3d0eb09 | It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically. "That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him." | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 313a777 | When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| f079b29 | The shopping centre was busy, and there was a long line at O'Briens' counter, but despite the noise and the music she somehow felt isolated. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 33ff9cb | E strano come ogni persona sembri avere un luogo suo... specialmente se non ci e nata. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| f41d100 | From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to other parts of Germany and to England. Already, during that time, I had made up my mind that I would one day write about the people I'd met and the experiences I was having. So I kept a detailed diary, which in due course provided raw material for all my Berlin stories. [from preface] | gay-authors | Christopher Isherwood | |
| d5a3f8c | The Nazis may write like schoolboys, but they're capable of anything. That's just why they're so dangerous. People laugh at them, right up to the last moment... | dangerous isherwood nazi nazis political | Christopher Isherwood | |
| d340f6f | George makes himself remembers. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if he wants to go on living. Jim is death. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 480f09d | Nice days were still nice. "The sun shines," wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Stories, "and Hitler is the master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends ... are in prison, possibly dead." The prevailing normalcy was seductive." | Erik Larson | ||
| 13496c3 | Despair is something horribly simple. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| dc0a125 | Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed." Christopher Ishe.. | Christopher Isherwood |