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| d3a5419 | On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| a2b6e14 | Skye certainly had moments in her life when she wished she could rewind time and reclaim her virgin status. The loss of it had happened so quickly, she wasn't sure she was even remembering what had happened correctly. Everyone always talked about knowing when the moment was right. Well, at the time, Skye thought she knew it was the right time. It certainly seemed right, but honestly, she wasn't really thinking in her brain at the moment. T.. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 66772ae | Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 8c9f29b | Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you? | James K. Morrow | ||
| 9cc5a4f | Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances, | James K. Morrow | ||
| d604fc2 | The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia... | James K. Morrow | ||
| e63607e | WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 37250b5 | Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 17d64d3 | A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 60594ec | There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 2bcf97c | If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 49739fc | The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 0fd4410 | Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 386d397 | Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. | Chris Abani | ||
| 0313910 | Her tears increased her emotion, and she pressed the little boy to her heart. She felt vaguely the pity of that child deprived of the only love in the world that is quite unselfish. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e923015 | iculous because at his age he had not enjoyed that which all fiction taught him was the most important thing in life; but he had the unfortunate gift of seeing things as they were, and the reality which was offered him differed too terribly from the ideal of his dreams. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| ace4d67 | Whenever he started a book with two solitary travellers riding along the brink of a desperate ravine he knew he was safe. The | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 8287b2a | had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin; | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 119ee48 | Men of letters, following in the painters' wake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discovered to possess inimitable drollery; there were those who found an aesthetic delight in performing dogs; while others exhausted their vocabulary to extol the distinction of conjurers and.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| b54e514 | I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing every day. My friends pursued their course with uneventfulness; they had no longer any surprises for me, and when I met them I knew pretty well what they would say; even their love-affairs had a tedious banality. We were like tram-cars running on their lines from terminus to terminus, and it was possible to calculate within small limits the number of passengers they wou.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 7cc273d | The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| c72a08d | Oh, don't talk rot. You will marry me, won't you? -D'you think we should be happy? -No. But what does that matter? (471) | marriage | W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham | |
| bbf12e6 | He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.(the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it) | god | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| be8c166 | He did not seem to care much about the Paris he was now seeing for the first time (I did not count the visit with his wife), and he accepted sights which must have been strange to him without any sense of astonishment. I have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure. Strickland remained placid. Looking back, I think now .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9d1cbac | Mrs. Strickland had the gift of sympathy. It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession, for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6b5dbbf | I suppose you're going to say that I'm not a good mother.' | parenthood | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| e6efa08 | I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| fab5fce | they could keep order better than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of coffee in the restaurant at Boulogne unless the waiter had known a little English. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| debc5e3 | People wonder at the romantic lives of poets and artists, but they should rather wonder at their gift of expression. The occurrences which pass unnoticed in the life of the average man in the existence of a writer of talent are profoundly interesting. It is the man they happen to that makes their significance. | authors experiences expression maugham poets w-somerset-maugham writer writing | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 1f9be0a | But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 96c3207 | The adventure was like a blunder that one had committed at a party so horrible that one felt nothing could be done to excuse it: the only remedy was to forget. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 39f7529 | Mne neponiatno, pochemu mnogikh liudei mysl' o samoubiistve privodit v uzhas. Govorit', chto eto trusost', -- nelepo. Esli chelovek sam ukhodit iz zhizni, kogda v zhizni ego ne zhdet nichego, krome boli i goria, ia mogu tol'ko odobrit' ego postupok. Razve ne skazal Plinii, chto vozmozhnost' umeret' kogda zakhochesh' luchshee, chto bog dal cheloveku v ego polnoi stradanii zhizni? Ostaviv v storone tekh, kto schitaet samoubiistvo grekhovnym,.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e448be9 | one could do a dastardly thing if one chose, but it was contemptible to regret it afterwards. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e12ea84 | It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| d2ba832 | I'm clever, I know it, and why shouldn't I acknowledge it?' While | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e149949 | It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had been swayed by what he thought he should do and never by what he wanted with his whole soul to do. He put that all aside now with a gesture of impatience. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9b3e85e | Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies. (442) | women | W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham | |
| 4446989 | the mask of custom was torn off rudely, showing you the soul all raw. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| a74c144 | He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 1a3c8be | the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f0364b5 | E entao o diabo o conduziu a um monte muito alto e mostrou-lhe os reinos do mundo, dizendo: "Todas estas coisas te darei se, prostrado, me adorares". Mas Jesus respondeu: "Vai-te, Satanas". De acordo com o bom e simples sao Mateus, foi este o fim da historia. Mas nao foi, nao. O demonio era astucioso e de novo veio a Jesus: "Se aceitares a vergonha e a ignominia, a flagelacao, uma coroa de espinhos e a morte na cruz, salvaras a humanidade, .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 65204ec | There are people who cannot read Tom Jones. I am not thinking of those who never read anything but the newspapers and the illustrated weeklies, or of those who never read anything but detective stories; I am thinking of those who would not demure if you classed them as members of the intelligentsia, of those who read and re-read Pride and Prejudice with delight, Middlemarch with self-complacency, and The Golden Bowl with reverence. The chan.. | W Somerset Maugham | ||
| ea2841c | don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2bf0648 | Philip discovered that the greatest tragedy of life to these people was not separation or death, that was natural and the grief of it could be assuaged with tears, but loss of work. | W. Somerset Maugham |