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His health grew worse, probably exacerbated by the myriad of hovering doctors eager to give their famous patient all the latest treatments: strychnine injections, ammonia, ...
Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media's tiny time segments, and it ...
Political parties are like religions that way. They choose us even more than we choose them. Very few people actually conduct a comparative study before ...
If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie ...
One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow
( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from ...
The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the ...
After a while, we've all sort of given up on finding Mr. Right. It's more about are you Mr. In-My-Bed-Right-Now and, whatever you do, please ...
He doesn't seem that nervous to me," Parker said. Oreo farted audibly. Zoe fanned the air. "See? Nervous."Parker laughed. "My guess would be he's eaten ...
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of ...
But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is ...
It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get ...
The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength ... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means ...
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer's task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious ...
All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also ...
Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of ...
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they ...
My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Me? All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the ...
You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.
I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.
Even now, I am working to make sure that my family is set up for the future. When most people make that statement, they are ...
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his ...
Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off. Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. ...
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
Meanwhile, I find comfort in my faith in God, in the wonderful family and friends He's placed in my path. On my lowest days, something ...
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
You have Charcy. I have Fortaine. He stared at the words, written in familiar, unmistakable handwriting. I'll receive you at my fort. *
History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the ...
Once i began to read I began to exist
I could always get by on a fake ID, calm face, and a smile. My sister could look guilty saying her prayers.
If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. ...
The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how ...
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a ...
I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want ...
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from ...
Bringing up children, she thought, was like pouring ginger beer into a tumbler. All went well up to a certain point, and then it all ...
Fraugh!" cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all."Braugh!" he cried, not liking at all what he suddenly understood."Sup-foe!" he said, saying in no ...
Save yourself for my sake. And I will go with you to the end of the world.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men together who are ...
There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in ...
Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves ...
Dizzy love turned a star lily pink,And hung above our lids too flushed to blink,But icy blue froze the fairytale cold,Though I treasured you and ...
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel ...
God's love for mankind; wide, long, high and deep.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?
We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some ...
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Getting along with one and other isn't meant to be difficult.
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
Curves are so emotional.
Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools ...
I've moved before I realize I'm going to, and suddenly Stephanie is in my arms and I'm carrying my fake girlfriend through the Upper West ...
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
You are free to make your own choices, but ultimately your choices make you.
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against ...
Weather forcast for tonight: dark.
On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.
Almonds Avocado Banana Banana Blueberries Broccoli Chia Seeds Cinnamon Coconut Oil Flaxseeds Garbanzo Beans Greek Yogurt Green Tea Honey Kale Lime Juice Pear Pineapple Spinach ...
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
Real friends ... don't give you heroin and cocaine." He took a step closer. "And they don't stand by and do nothing if they think ...
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in ...
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed ...
There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand.
Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything ...
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that ... whatever it was.
Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn ...
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
You're right, Jeff did," Sweet ruefully conceded, as he tossed a forkful
Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in ...
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that ...
At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked ...
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay ...
Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill.
Oh my dear from a distant fantasy land! I love to be in your dreams as a fairy of love with wings of flowers and ...
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to ...
Everything we knew from life suggested that America would do what it liked ...
No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily ...
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with ...
You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's ...
Tonight I would like to present you with two options:
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be ...
Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when ...
A cross with yellow roses. What a fucking thing. It was like an electric chair with floral-print cushions, a bad joke.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time.
Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work ... I decided I would make him my model ... getting ...
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending ...
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to ...
Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.