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| 60620ee | P198 Describe John Moore's brother's death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I'd stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1dfedd1 | P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7defef9 | but it was one of those all-too-common moments in New York when one is faced with a damnable set of options. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7a7831b | Govoriu tebe, sen'orita Stivi, -- v dzhungliakh v svoikh stranstviiakh ia videl, est' krest'iane, chto zhivut riadom s logovami i okhotnich'imi zemliami tigrov. Nekotorye iz etikh tigrov ubivaiut liudei -- nekotorye net. Nikto ne znaet, pochemu. No vse znaiut, chto tigry, kotorye ubivaiut, dolzhny umeret', -- potomu chto raz napivshis' krovi cheloveka, oni ne mogut ot nee otvyknut'. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0413f3b | V moei zhizni chasten'ko byvali zhenshchiny, no ni odna ne smogla vselit' v menia te mechty, chto ia odnazhdy razdelil s Ket na kukhne u doktora. Sdaetsia mne, vse eto umerlo vmeste s nei; i esli komu vdrug pokazhetsia strannym, chto takoe prikliuchilos' so mnoi stol' rano, ia lish' skazhu, chto te, kto vyros na ulitsakh, vsio delaiut slishkom rano -- slishkom rano i slishkom bystro. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 26b3d79 | 'Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make...' " Mike" | Caleb Carr | ||
| cf05a1d | Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.' " Nodding" | Caleb Carr | ||
| 2ed272f | leviathan that | Caleb Carr | ||
| c1d3c6c | Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walkure | Caleb Carr | ||
| c5c0fe5 | scythe on | Caleb Carr | ||
| f24f434 | like the only hummable tune in a difficult opera. | Caleb Carr | ||
| c79f078 | Whatever poor team of maidservants had to stuff her into the kind of tight-waisted gown she was wearing that evening earned their pay as sure as any coal miner, that much was certain. The | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1384a75 | A noi fa piacere che uomini come Beecham esistano: essi incarnano tutto cio che vi e di oscuro nel nostro mondo, nella nostra societa. Ma le cose che hanno fatto di Beecham un mostro? Be, quelle le tolleriamo, anzi, ne godiamo... | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1077a49 | Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make...' | Caleb Carr | ||
| 968020d | The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing; | Caleb Carr | ||
| 71ff708 | you cannot objectify the subjective, you cannot generalize the specific. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 86785fe | Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 714611a | mozhet, kliuch k zhizni, nesmotria na vse, vo chto doktor veril i nad chem prorabotal ves' svoi vek, kroetsia lish' v tom, chtoby otstranit'sia ot urodstva, s kotorym ty stalkivaesh'sia -- s kotorym stalkivaetsia kazhdyi -- i prosto perezhit' eto. Mozhet, pamiat' -- lish' zlobnoe prokliat'e, a myshlenie, sposobnoe steret' boleznennye vospominaniia, -- blago. | Caleb Carr | ||
| dfe1b72 | most men consider their rationally selected actions are in fact idiosyncratic responses that have grown strong enough, through repeated use, to overpower other urges and reactions--that have won, in other words, the mental battle for survival. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 49b367f | Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James, The Principles of Psychology | Caleb Carr | ||
| 5230c9c | but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again. | Caleb Carr | ||
| e8eaec5 | Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walkure" | Caleb Carr | ||
| 57910b7 | seen. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 2adf4b1 | the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior. | Caleb Carr | ||
| e7ca055 | there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My | Caleb Carr | ||
| 184adbb | the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people, | Caleb Carr | ||
| e84c918 | Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 29637fa | All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 8ba6012 | We're all still running, according to Kreizler--in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, away from the nightmares that continue to be injected into children's skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7043237 | but as anybody who's ever been involved with the law will tell you, facts aren't always or even usually what decides a case. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0a2c753 | It isn't really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn't want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society--more important, even, than honest or decent--is identifiable. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 464b74f | The fons et origo of all reality, whether from the absolute or the practical point of view, is thus subjective, is ourselves. As bare logical thinkers, without emotional reaction, we give reality to whatever objects we think of, for they are really phenomena, or objects of our passing thought, if nothing more. But, as thinkers with emotional reaction, we give what seems to us a still higher degree of reality to whatever things we select and.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 3d7e9b6 | the eminent physician and alienist, my good friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 6cbbfaf | simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework) | Caleb Carr | ||
| 17077ff | Nam soobshchili, chto eto delo nevozmozhno raskryt', - otvetil Morgan. - No zachem meshat' popytke ego raskryt'? - nastoichivo sprosil Kraitsler. - Potomu, dzhentl'meny, - razdalsia tikhii golos u nas za spinoi, - chto poka delo schitaetsia neraskryvaemym, nikogo nel'zia obvinit' v tom, chto ego ne raskryvaiut. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 788771b | everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 83a0e93 | intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. Here, it was once sagely remarked, you could fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man; | Caleb Carr | ||
| d18d3fb | He's a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars. | Caleb Carr | ||
| a37aa66 | and we'll all be martialed to the task of protecting some obscure species of newt from the ravages of a predatory industrial giant bent on planting a fetid factory on the little amphibian's breeding ground. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 4b98d3f | marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case). | Caleb Carr | ||
| 634b2b1 | The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it--for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology | Caleb Carr | ||
| 339a6b0 | great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house's green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police officials. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 8efaada | What we see depends mainly on what we look for. --SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892 | Caleb Carr | ||
| 94dff92 | The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings. | Caleb Carr |