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Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether ...
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be ...
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune ...
As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no ...
I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a ...
He looks away.And he smiles.Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand ...
I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out ...
The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.
Love can do funny things to you. It can make you happy; it can make you sad. It can even make you downright miserable.
Hekate smacked the mirror down. "I'd never fancy you," she retorted to Hermes. "And if you ever try to kiss me, I'llI'll keep a snake ...
What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures that, ...
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek ...
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you ...
I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten ...
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 ...
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.
We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are ...
Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than ...
Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire ...
Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then ...
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and ...
FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time ...
You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...
Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do ...
There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly ...
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a ...
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high ...
What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large ...
Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee ...
Come, fill the Cup, in the fire of SpringYour Winter-garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo flutter--and the Bird is ...
You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every ...
You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded."She saved my life.""You can fight your own battles!""Not when I'm knocked out ...
Birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders ...
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, ...
First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.
It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.
Such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour
Oh ... Blip. Yeah, I see." He sounds distracted, awed. "Your child," I whisper."Our child." He counters.
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of ...
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no ...
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that ...
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' ...
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and ...
We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams ...
A yearning stirred in him that was not sexual but a kind of reaching toward her simplicity of form. He
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe ...
When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play ...
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole ...
I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food ...
My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty ..
Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined ...
It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
If you think you can lead your flock of sheeple and peeps to some glorified noodle fest on the mall, you got another thing coming, ...
Depressed is a word that often describes somebody who is feeling sad and gloomy, but in this case it describes a secret button, hidden in ...
We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.
The flavor of a wine is directly influenced by the soil in which the grapes that made the wine are grown.
I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a ...
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short ...
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. ...
Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me ...
I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack ...
In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a ...
I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human ...
Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational ...
I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my ...
Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well. Her worst trait. Her best trait. The desire to come ...
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic ...
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by ...
It was a nice feeling. Like starting out on a long walk, and knowing you're headed in the right direction.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
While some American education experts may say that all learning should be 'fun,' I personally believe that the word "fun' is the wrong word to ...
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst ...
I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive ...
How like a winter hath my absence been From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, ...
Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like ...
Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it.
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me ...
Poetry, when you saw me coming in your direction with a pen and my problems, why didn't you run and hide like the rest?
You know how much I want a Vespa. I'm Vespa Desperate. It's a medical syndrome, you know. I see Vespas and I want to chase ...
I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, ...
Maybe I should have got some chili-slaw dogs from Shorty's. Everybody loves those." "Buddy," Lars said, dropping his shoes to the deck with a thump, ...
I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.
I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens ...
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...