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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 70f7721 | When we have at last overthrown all existing governments, the world will enjoy not war but global orgies conducted with the utmost protocol and the most truly international spirit, for these people do transcend simple national differences. Their minds are on one goal; they are truly united; they think as one. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| cb59a73 | couples who swayed and dipped around the Gibraltar of a wallflower, Ignatius. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| e74457a | the tight trousers that bulged offensively in the crotch in violation of all rules of theology and geometry. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| d83d70b | I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 5ec1244 | the visitors to that questionable museum would defecate into their garish tourist outfits | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 99cae3f | I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| b3b4a7b | Lana started to make sounds, like the imprecations of a priestess, over the bills that the boy had given her. Whispered numerals and words floated upward from her coral lips, and, closing her eyes, she copied some figures onto a pad of paper. Her fine body, itself a profitable investment through the years, bent reverently over the Formica-top altar. Smoke, like incense, rose from the cigarette in the ashtray at her elbow, curling upward wit.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 086aae8 | APPEAL, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. | Appeals | ||
| 3d99619 | Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f229f29 | And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 2decb3f | producing Mr. Reilly in the abundant flesh. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 7573285 | Of course," Ignatius said in a thoughtful, serious voice, "this could be a worldwide deception." The red sateen scarf rode up and down. "The next war could turn out to be one massive orgy. Good grief. How many of the military leaders of the world may simply be deranged old sodomites acting out some fake fantasy role? Actually, this might be quite beneficial to the world. It could mean an end to war forever. This could be the key to lasting .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| d93711e | Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3d78602 | When I was four Mother gave a party for some of the wives of the factory workers, and Aunt Mae came into the living room in the middle of the party wearing a dress that showed almost all her front, except for the nipples, which I knew you never could show. The party ended soon after that, and as I was sitting on the porch, I heard the women talking to each other as they left. And they were calling Aunt Mae all sorts of names like I had neve.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 94e4d8a | Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 1d8101f | He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| aeedb8a | No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and world-view and mind. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f518189 | What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs. Reilly's worst fears were realized." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8b90429 | I've gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 88a39b7 | From time to time the Chief of Staff, the President, and so on, dressed in sequins and feathers, will entertain the leaders, i.e., the perverts, of all the other countries at balls and parties. Quarrels of any sort could easily be straightened out in the men's room of the redecorated United Nations. Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| cb68283 | Patrolman Mancuso's love for the motorcycle was platonically intense. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f9968e1 | It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly--and with very limited funds. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3571ee5 | Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. | new-york perspective subway | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 343bbaf | When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr needed an attending physician for their 1804 duel, they both chose David Hosack. | Victoria Johnson | ||
| ba7e9ad | A decision of the House of Lords requires no sanction. | Appeals | ||
| 8a7b186 | And gazed around them to the left and rightWith the prophetic eye of appetite. | Appetite | ||
| d19b005 | rang through the room. She stopped in mid-step and whirled to face him. "Do not" | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 98bd6d4 | courage isn't something most people are born with. It comes from determination and resolve and faith" Poppy" | Victoria Alexander | ||
| a4390a6 | Life, Dulcie, is entirely too short to waste. There are no promises, no guarantees. But love, my dear girl." She took Dulcie's hands and gazed into her eyes. "Love is always worth the effort." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 69132d9 | I know I can be a bit forward and I do talk entirely too much, which I would try to do something about but it seems there is always something interesting to say. And I'm afraid if I don't say it when it comes to mind, I will probably explode or something equally unpleasant--" Marian Henderson" | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 7b991e3 | And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird fluttering in your chest?" "A trapped bird?" Gray laughed. "Good God, man, what has come over you?" "I was trying to be poetical," Win said in a lofty manner. "I have the heart of a poet, you know." "You do not." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| c5c459a | That's when that idiot viscount handed the rebuilding of Fairborough Hall off to that overbearing female. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 37f6867 | She prefers men who appreciate her mind as well as her appearance." "Yes, she would, wouldn't she?" He thought for a moment. "Is she dreadfully intelligent?" Amusement twinkled in Veronica's eyes but her tone was somber. "Dreadfully." "That can't be helped, I suppose." He nodded. "Anything else?" -- | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 2aeda08 | She likes what all women like. Consideration, thoughtfulness, a man who will worship the very ground she walks on. Who could not bear to live if she was not in his life. A man who would sacrifice what he wants most for her." He stared. "You sound like you're reading from a romantic novel." "You asked what women want and there you have it." She shrugged. "For most women, such a man is only found between the pages of a novel. They are forced .. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 65c198f | The three of you are really quite astonishing." Sidney shook her head. "It had only been a vague suspicion before we left England, prompted by the willingness with which you were all prepared to carry out this charade, but I'd always thought that there was a touch of something not completely forthright about you." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 5e7a84c | 7. Gold.--In 1858 it was reported that gold had been discovered far to the north, on the banks of the Fitzroy River, and in a short time many vessels arrived in Keppel Bay, their holds and decks crowded with men, who eagerly landed and hastened to Canoona, a place about sixty or seventy miles up the river. Ere long there were about fifteen thousand diggers on the scene; but it was soon discovered that the gold was confined to a very small a.. | Alexander Sutherland | ||
| 1b904f9 | Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 66c0b0d | Govern well thy appetite, lest SinSurprise thee, and her black attendant Death. | Appetite | ||
| 8b18de3 | Forgive me for saying so, Your Highness," Clarissa said slowly, "but for one as unaccustomed to good deeds as you, perhaps it would be best if you started with one on a smaller scale. Something like, I don't know, spreading bread crumbs for birds?" "Birds?" Valentina stared at Clarissa as if she had sprouted wings and would fly off. "Why on earth would I wish to feed birds?" "It was just a thought," Clarissa murmured." | kindness princess | Victoria Alexander | |
| aa0e7e8 | Australia; the Royal Society of Victoria undertook to organise an expedition for the purpose of crossing the continent, and collected subscriptions to the amount of PS3,400; the Victorian Government voted PS6,000, and spent an additional sum of PS3,000 in bringing twenty-six camels from Arabia. | Alexander Sutherland | ||
| 46d2705 | Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners." | Lita-Rose Betcherman | ||
| 0a37534 | It is time to end this." He ducked under her sword, stepped around her with blinding speed until he was at her back. She turned at once. He thrust his sword with great precision to catch the grip just above her hand and flick the sword from her grasp. It was a move he had long ago perfected. Her eyes widened, she stepped back, stumbled, and fell to the ground. He stood over her, aiming his sword at her midsection. "Have you had enough then.. | hilarious-girl-power | Victoria Alexander | |
| 17ee641 | Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| c5328a6 | She was all the delights of heaven and the fires of hell at once. | Victoria Alexander |