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| 11137c0 | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" | Michel Faber | ||
| 5ca3394 | It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift. | Michel Faber | ||
| ecff442 | protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. | Michel Faber | ||
| e17edf2 | He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman. | Michel Faber | ||
| 8affde7 | Locating a past event in measured time was something they could do with great effort, as a special favor, but Peter could tell they didn't see the point. Why should it matter exactly how many days, weeks, months or years ago a relative had died? A person was either living amongst them or in the ground. | Michel Faber | ||
| a393361 | In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick. | Michel Faber | ||
| 086b5b3 | There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole 'fishers of men' analogy . . . the bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net ca.. | fish fishers-of-men fishing-nets nets translations | Michel Faber | |
| e25c64b | could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition. | Michel Faber | ||
| 93f611b | behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they? | Michel Faber | ||
| 9e79c60 | Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. | Michel Faber | ||
| 9490396 | She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure. | Michel Faber | ||
| 28660a7 | Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. | technology | Michel Faber | |
| 0c71ad7 | how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? | Michel Faber | ||
| 40dba0c | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me." | Michel Faber | ||
| e8d08fd | And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances. | people laid mind-altering-substances new | Michel Faber | |
| 33980a1 | There was only so much calamitous change you could hear about, events that rewrote what you thought was general knowledge, before your brain stopped digesting and you clung on to older realities. | Michel Faber | ||
| 36e62f7 | facades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders--his whole life had been leading up to this. | Michel Faber | ||
| 32d1e2f | Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto. | Michel Faber | ||
| 17f2e8a | La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres. | Michel Faber | ||
| d9956c3 | The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious. With God, nothing shall be impossible, proclaimed Luke, and that message, which Peter had always thought was the most joyously positive reassurance you could wish for, now turned itself over like a dying insect, and became Without God, everything shall be impossible. | Michel Faber | ||
| cae1563 | Desconfia de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexion. | Michel Faber | ||
| 6fe8a1e | Reinhold Niebuhr, | Michel Faber | ||
| 63ea36f | UFCNo such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you... | Michel Faber | ||
| d676eae | No such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you... | Michel Faber | ||
| 816e502 | Hoy dia, su vida se asemeja mas bien a un periodico: sin sentido, al dia y lleno de sucesos disparatados. | vida | Michel Faber | |
| b1fe188 | Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another | Michel Faber | ||
| c3da1f4 | Todo arte nuevo, para ser autentico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artistica. | Michel Faber | ||
| 62aa430 | Hoy es el dia, el dia tormentoso y memorable en que metera en vereda a su futuro incontrolado. | Michel Faber | ||
| bbcdbee | El hombre no solo vive de alta cultura. | Michel Faber | ||
| 46108f8 | away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing | Michel Faber | ||
| 4d18d63 | Todos nosotros somos a la vez objeto de repugnancia y de envidia. Todos nosotros menos los muy pobres, los que solo tienen por debajo de ellos el pozo septico del infierno. | Michel Faber | ||
| fb92b83 | a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. | Michel Faber | ||
| af8470c | No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa solo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiracion de otras mujeres; de ellas solo espera una indiferencia cortes y un cotilleo rencoroso a sus espaldas. | Michel Faber | ||
| d3fa12c | La educacion es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo. | Michel Faber | ||
| 38a6ea0 | Uh-huh.' 'And even inside this car, assuming you could have a car, or some sort of vehicle, in this natural world, pulled by horses I suppose . . . It would be pitch black. And very cold, too, on a winter's night. But instead, look what we've got | Michel Faber | ||
| 3283444 | As he drove on, the sense that they were not on the same page -that they needed different things at this crucial time -entered the car like a discomfiting presence. He'd thought -he'd felt -that yesterday morning had been their proper leavetaking, and that this trip to the airport was just . . . a postscript, almost. Yesterday morning had been so right. They'd finally worked their way to the bottom of their 'To Do'list. His bag was already .. | Michel Faber | ||
| 0392c74 | Oasans slept a lot; they got tired easily. They'd work for an hour or two, and then, whether the task had been arduous or not, they would go home and rest in bed for a while. Peter stretched in | Michel Faber | ||
| 7867b16 | Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. Simple truths with complicated clothes on. The only purpose of the linguistic dressing-up is so people won't look at the contents of our naked hears and minds and say "How naff." | Michel Faber | ||
| 849d1f0 | Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach. | Michel Faber | ||
| 36ed6c8 | V glazakh Gospoda vse muzhchiny i zhenshchiny nagie. Odezhda -- figovyi listok, ne bolee. A tela pod odezhdoi -- lish' eshche odna prosloika, odeianie iz ploti pod nepraktichnoi obolochkoi tonkoi kozhi raznoobraznykh ottenkov rozovogo, zheltogo i korichnevogo. I tol'ko dushi real'ny. S etoi tochki zreniia prosto nevozmozhny takie veshchi, kak sotsial'naia napriazhennost', styd ili smushchenie. Vse, chto tebe nuzhno, -- eto privetstvovat' du.. | Michel Faber | ||
| cdfc2b7 | He was too frightened to speak. This was no hallucination. This was what happened to the universe when you were no longer able to hold it together. Atoms in clusters, rays of light, forming ephemeral shapes before moving on. His greatest fear, as he dissolved into the dark, was that he would never see other humans the same way again. | Michel Faber | ||
| 67a1f77 |
Bol'shinstvo istin dovol'no banal'ny na samom dele. No my uslozhniaem ikh iz chistogo stesneniia. Prostye istiny pokryty odezhdoi slozhnosti. Edinstvennyi smysl lingvisticheskoi odezhdy v tom, chtoby liudi ne uvideli soderzhimogo nashikh obnazhennykh serdets i razuma i ne skazali: < |
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| 282f9da | A seichas ty prozhivaesh' novuiu zhizn', gde tvoe telo bol'she nikogda tebia ne podvedet, tebe ne nuzhen insulin ili nikotin, i nikto tebia bol'she ne obmanet, i kazhdaia taina, trevozhivshaia tvoi razum, uzhe otkrylas' tebe, i kazhdaia rana, prichiniavshaia stradaniia, uzhe zatianulas', i tebe zhal' nas, ostavshikhsia zdes', vnizu, eshche volochashchikh nashi tiazhelye tela po zemle. <...> -- Art Severin, -- provozglasil Piter, i, nesmotri.. | Michel Faber | ||
| 5ab26f4 | Amy, his mother, is not the mending type. Her speciality is thrashing grown-up men until they whimper for mercy. | Michel Faber |