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The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told ...

They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.

To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something ...

Trombone lessons?" I asked. "I couldn't resist," Eve said with a smile. THE NEXT CHAPTER What Eve was experiencing in her late seventies - and ...

They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We ...

There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called ...

I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and ...

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair ...

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: ...

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, ...

In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an " ecosystem ...

I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more ...

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain ...

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. ...

Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation.

Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying ...

Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens".

If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional ...

He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun ...

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Art is risk made visible

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've ...

I do not answer to a scarless Pixie whelp. I am a Peerless Scarred. ArchPrimus of the 542nd class of the Institute of Mars. I ...

Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? ...

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high ...

If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding ...

We celebrate the Birthday of the Body. But, in reality, "We" are not the Body. We are the Soul, the Atman. Therefore, Celebrate every day, ...

The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that ...

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to ...

It's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...

My brave, beautiful Chiara," he muttered. "God help you if you want me as much as I want you.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

Your soul is your connection to the Divine. Sacred sex is an activity of joining souls in holy, celestial creation, expressing your appreciation for the ...

It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of ...

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.""Did ...

I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the ...

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of ...

For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find ...

These adaptations did not

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No ...

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

There was ji in caring for those who could not care for themselves.

Writing, regardless of the end result - whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed - means celebrating beauty in an often ...

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering ...

I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. ...

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before ...

Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like ...

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this ...

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things ...

How does he look, Jeeves?""Sir?""What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like?""It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it on the contrary, ...

Despair all ye mortals," he said in a voice of doom. "the mama approacheth

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other ...

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute ...

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

She had come to him when he was no longer there ... because he had not found the young man with the scarred cheek he ...

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met ...

Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at ...

Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.

Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys ...

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Leaves like rusty tinfor the desolate mind that has seen the end-the barest glimmerings.Leaves aswirl with gullsmade wild by winter.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the ...

Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of ...

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

I have brought the little Breese, as ordered, Neefis Archibennu.

Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Blood and bodies and death and power.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but ... " (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in ...

Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...

If an alien visitor were to hover a few hundred yards above the planet, it could be forgiven for thinking that cars were the dominant ...

It's time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they'll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them. ...

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, ...

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for ...

Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to ...

Every predator is a prey.

From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt ...

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll ...

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking ...