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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c0a081 | And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawkish sorrow, like one of his Victorian poems? Or a gnawing of some need unsatisfied? Or just a grayness to everything? | true-love | Connie Willis | |
| d8d7e6d | Three o'clock's when every doubt and regret and guilty thought bubbles up out of your subconscious to plague you. 'The dark night of the soul,' F. Scott Fitzgerald called it. | Connie Willis | ||
| 629be85 | You can't go back," Gilchrist said. "Haven't you heard? We're under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy's carelessness." | Connie Willis | ||
| 125091b | And I found myself in a corner of Blackwell's Book Store. Its dark woods and book-lined walls are not only instantly recognizable but timeless, and for a moment I thought I'd made it back to 2057, and getting to the lab was going to be a simple matter of sprinting up the Broad to Balliol, but as soon as I poked my head round the bookcase, I knew it wasn't going to be that simple. Outside Blackwell's bow windows it was snowing. And there was.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 5e8a237 | It was only ninety-four pages long, and so obviously wretchedly written it was destined to become a huge fad | fads popular trends | Connie Willis | |
| dc8ca7a | Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite? | Appetite | ||
| ede3093 | I find no abhorring in my appetite. | Appetite | ||
| 8790967 | I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is an American, and he is one of our longest-staying inmates. He committed a murder. He is quite insane. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 702441a | n the tropical climates of the Caribbean and the temperate climes of South America, where Christmas falls smack in the middle of summer, there is no Santa arriving on a sleigh, no jingle bells in the snow, no stockings hung on the mantel with care. it's a holiday for family, for grown-ups as well as children, celebrated with plenty of traditional food, drink, music, and dance. Nochebuena, Christmas Eve, is the night for la misa del gullo, ".. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 9157c8d | My appetite comes to me while eating. | Appetite | ||
| 004035c | Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. | Appetite | ||
| ec22e48 | Sexta. Mis bienes consisten en mi casa, que antes fue del marques de Villarrocha, y que con lo que dejo para su conclusion me cuesta veinticuatro mil pesos, de los que 5.320 son a censo y pertenecen por una capellania legal a mi mujer, a cuyo nombre se compro la casa, estando yo en Bolivia. 18.400 pesos que me reconoce a censo la hacienda de Santiago, perteneciente a los senores Zaldumbides. 600 pesos de unos negros de mi propiedad que esta.. | Alfonso Rumazo González | ||
| 7cdabc4 | It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| b25da85 | Plito, chicken Gallina, hen Lapiz, pencil y Pluma, pen. Ventana, window Puerta, door Maestra, teacher y Piso, floor. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 65e3fb6 | Achaemenid Persian | Simon Winchester | ||
| 4d0342c | Montana named Triple Divide Peak. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 748c61a | No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 6fc809c | or of oats (" a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people")," | Simon Winchester | ||
| d726197 | Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 4f53518 | said. 'To make someone lose face is unforgivable.' The | Simon Winchester | ||
| 143a2aa | The first slips of snow white unlined paper, six inches by four, and covered with William Minor's neat, elaborately cursive, and so distinctively American handwriting in greenish black ink, began to drift out from the Broadmoor post room in the spring of 1885. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 01dcb51 | It was a dispute of such gravity--linguists and philologists were known to be mercurial and hold eternal grudges--that | Simon Winchester | ||
| 1e3108b | apostates. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 63ecb3d | As it happens, the most fulsome remarks made about the volunteers that night relate to two men who had much in common: Both were Americans, both spent time in India, both were soldiers, both were mad, and though both had been invited, neither one came to the Oxford dinner. | Simon Winchester | ||
| f5fbe74 | They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 5a08115 | and his youngest sister, Henrietta, lived to a great age, also beside the sea, with a vast collection of cats--having previously traveled around England carrying a portable stove that allowed her to cook her beloved sausages in the privacy of her various bedrooms. She also once mistakenly took an alarm clock to church with her, instead of a Bible, with predictably catastrophic results. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 294b421 | I regret, kind sir, that I am not. It is not at all as you suppose. I am in fact the Governor of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is most certainly here. But he is an inmate. He has been a patient here for more than twenty years. He is our longest-staying resident." Although" | Simon Winchester | ||
| c3cc635 | Americans | Simon Winchester | ||
| 31e9530 | They were a formidable group--the college dean, Henry Liddell (whose daughter Alice had so captivated the Christ Church mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson that he wrote an adventure book for her, set in Wonderland); | Simon Winchester | ||
| 1d9ebc2 | Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able to attempt to understand the processes that had caused such dreadful violence...their observations, painstaking and precise as science demanded, collided head-on with a most discomfiting reality: that while in 1883 the world was becoming ever more scientifically advanced, it was in part because of these same.. | geology indonesia tsunami volcanism | Simon Winchester | |
| b1ad12a | The story of Krakatoa had a small beginning--seven newsworthy words, buried well down in the pages of a single London newspaper. As the summer of 1883 wore on, it was to become a very much greater story indeed. And when it was over, three months later, it was to have implications for society--for the laying of the foundations of McLuhan's "global village"--that have reverberated in a far more important way, and for far, far longer, than any.. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 2454814 | Young children and chickens would ever be eating. | Appetite | ||
| 106ca57 | Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. | Applause | ||
| c60d29e | Popular Applause! what heart of manIs proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? | Applause | ||
| 1b29982 | In the aftermath of Krakatoa's eruption, 165 villages were devastated, 36,417 people died, and uncountable thousands were injured--and almost all of them, villages and inhabitants, were victims not of the eruption directly but of the immense sea-waves* that were propelled outward from the volcano by that last night of detonations. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 337860a | In Victorian London, even in a place as louche and notoriously crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh, the sound of gunshots was a rare event indeed. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 9ba5b9c | Despite all the intellectual activity of the time there was in print no guide to the tongue, no linguistic vade mecum, no single book that Shakespeare or Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Izaak Walton, or any of their other learned contemporaries could consult. | Simon Winchester | ||
| d38456f | is perhaps difficult to imagine so creative a mind working without a single work of lexicographical reference beside him, other than Mr. Cooper's crib (which Mrs. Cooper once threw into the fire, prompting the great man to begin all over again) and Mr. Wilson's little manual, but that was the condition under which his particular genius was compelled to flourish. | Simon Winchester | ||
| b99d9a0 | Such a series of hammer blows! Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly really rather--dare one say it?--insignificant. He may not after all have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created. The Book of Genesis, believed by so many to be Holy Writ, was perhaps no more than the stuff of myth and ancient legend. And now even the continents themselves, long supposed to be the most reliable and unshifting bedrock of our very existence, ha.. | Simon Winchester | ||
| eda3aa4 | They are clean to the far more brutally restrictive demands of ISO number 1, which permits only 10 particles of just one-tenth of a micron per cubic meter, and no particles of any size larger than that. A human being existing in a normal environment swims in a miasma of air and vapor that is five million times less clean. | Simon Winchester | ||
| b5a97df | And there are the girls--young, chocolate-skinned, ever-giggling naked girls with sleek wet bodies, rosebud nipples, long hair, coltish legs, and scarlet and purple petals folded behind their ears--who play in the white Indian Ocean surf and who run, quite without shame, along the cool wet sands on their way back home. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 3853c60 | The original settler in the New World was Thomas Minor, who came originally from the village of Chew Magna in Gloucestershire. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 8b20d3d | Here was an inescapable irony of the Civil War, not known in any conflict between men before or since: the fact that this was a war fought with new and highly effective weapons, machines for the mowing down of men--and yet at a time when an era of poor and primitive medicine was just coming to an end. It was fought with the mortar and the musket and the minie ball, but not yet quite with anesthesia or with sulphonamides and penicillin. The .. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 4ce053d | Other dictionaries in other languages took longer to make; but none was greater, grander, or had more authority than this. The greatest effort since the invention of printing. The longest sensational serial ever written. | Simon Winchester |