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> [“What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/what-else-she-is-so-beautiful-you-don-t-get-tired-of-looking-at-her-3/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/i-spent-a-lot-of-time-as-a-volunteer-in-a-nursing-home-in-amherst/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [“Nobody took Rumfoord’s diagnosis seriously. The staff thought Rumfoord was a hateful old man, conceited and cruel. He often said to them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/nobody-took-rumfoord-s-diagnosis-seriously-the-staff-thought-rumfoord/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/she-looked-at-a-silver-birch-it-would-have-a-soft-showery-voice-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Jack,would you mind giving us some privacy?" Jack looked Dougal up and down. "Are you going to berate him?" "No." "Chastise him?"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-hawkins/jack-would-you-mind-giving-us-some-privacy-jack-looked-dougal-up-and/)

[Karen Hawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-hawkins/)

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> [“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chabon/the-old-man-had-been-stoking-and-sipping-at-his-pipe-for-the-last/)

[Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chabon/)

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> [“Already it is twilight down in the Laredito. Bats fly forth from their roostings in courthouse and tower and circle the quarter.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/already-it-is-twilight-down-in-the-laredito-bats-fly-forth-from-their/)

[Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/)

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> [“I was reading an old text on the exploits of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and I –“ Senji stopped, going very pale, turned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eddings/i-was-reading-an-old-text-on-the-exploits-of-belgarath-the-sorcerer/)

[David Eddings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eddings/)

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> [The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-iron-throne-is-mine-by-rights-all-those-who-deny-that-are-my-foes/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“For, when we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of him is groundless? No. As much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/for-when-we-say-that-god-is-love-do-we-teach-men-that-their-fear-of/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [“Pointsman is the only one here maintaining his calm. He appears unruffled and strong. His lab coats have even begun lately to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/pointsman-is-the-only-one-here-maintaining-his-calm-he-appears/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [“That's the way it always is," said the old man. "It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/that-s-the-way-it-always-is-said-the-old-man-it-s-called-the/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-flagg/i-brought-a-picture-with-me-that-i-had-at-home-of-a-girl-in-a-swing/)

[Fannie Flagg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-flagg/)

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> [“Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. It’s sittin’ up all night with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/now-that-s-what-i-call-magic-seein-all-that-dealin-with-all-that-and/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oriana-fallaci/in-the-legends-that-males-have-invented-to-explain-life-the-first/)

[Oriana Fallaci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oriana-fallaci/)

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> [“I only wanted books—nothing more—only books, only words, it was never anything but words—give them to me, I don’t have any! Look,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tatyana-tolstaya/i-only-wanted-books-nothing-more-only-books-only-words-it-was-never/)

[Tatyana Tolstaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tatyana-tolstaya/)

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> [“She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/she-was-a-very-pretty-woman-she-had-dark-red-hair-and-her-eyes-her/)

[J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/)

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> [“Waste of time," said the leper. "There's a dozen or more beggars who come here every day, pretending to be cripples, hiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/waste-of-time-said-the-leper-there-s-a-dozen-or-more-beggars-who-come/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [“How can school help you with the land?" he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. "Learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/how-can-school-help-you-with-the-land-he-asked-an-old-grandfather/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

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> [We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/we-re-not-obsessed-by-anything-you-see-insisted-ford-and-that-s-the/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [“Adrian took a few steps toward me. "Not bad, Sage. I think you just scared old man Mazur." I felt a smile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/adrian-took-a-few-steps-toward-me-not-bad-sage-i-think-you-just/)

[Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/)

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> [“Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese ’Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-huang/every-few-months-or-so-at-home-pops-had-to-have-taiwanese-mian-not/)

[Eddie Huang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-huang/)

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> [“That’s the Thornton place up there atop yon hill,” the farmer said, pointing. Lucinda gazed in mounting anger at the large, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-mcnaught/that-s-the-thornton-place-up-there-atop-yon-hill-the-farmer-said/)

[Judith McNaught](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-mcnaught/)

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> [“Bishop on "At the Fishhouses" At the last minute, after I’d had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/bishop-on-at-the-fishhouses-at-the-last-minute-after-i-d-had-a-chance/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

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> [“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/now-this-is-the-point-you-fancy-me-mad-madmen-know-nothing-but-you/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me." Here, the funeral parade stops. At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/she-says-i-ll-swear-by-the-rose-tattooed-on-my-ass-that-old-man-raped/)

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/)

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> [“We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-wallace/we-all-have-stories-just-as-you-do-ways-in-which-he-touched-us-helped/)

[Daniel Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-wallace/)

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> [“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-m-an-old-man-trying-to-give-a-young-daughter-advice-and-it-s-like-a/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [A 24 year boy seeing out from the train window, shouted, Dad, look the trees are going behind! Dad smiled and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-24-year-boy-seeing-out-from-the-train-window-shouted-dad-look-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“from the upcoming novel, Agent White: A figure dressed all in black ran across the rooftops in the rain. A black cloak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-kanuckel/from-the-upcoming-novel-agent-white-a-figure-dressed-all-in-black-ran/)

[Michael Kanuckel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-kanuckel/)

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> [“Well,then,let's make sure all his flying is directed at you first, shall we?" Anthony retorted, and opening the door to Jason's study,began…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johanna-lindsey/well-then-let-s-make-sure-all-his-flying-is-directed-at-you-first/)

[Johanna Lindsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johanna-lindsey/)

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> [“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/vivian-bloodmark-a-philosophical-friend-of-mine-in-later-years-used/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-lucas/i-wanted-yoda-to-be-the-traditional-kind-of-character-you-find-in/)

[George Lucas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-lucas/)

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> [“He remembered the time hi fished the female of a pair of swordfish. The male always lets the female eat first, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/he-remembered-the-time-hi-fished-the-female-of-a-pair-of-swordfish/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miroslav-penkov/quiet-moving-masterfully-crafted-such-are-the-nine-stories-in-venus/)

[Miroslav Penkov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miroslav-penkov/)

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> [“The Old Man, like the French, believed that black was the only appropriate color to display and wear in order to show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monique-truong/the-old-man-like-the-french-believed-that-black-was-the-only/)

[Monique Truong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monique-truong/)

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> [“I'd never have believed I'd see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-d-never-have-believed-i-d-see-a-wife-of-mine-doting-on-a-child-of/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [“He was a baby once. He must have been sweet and clean and his mother kissed his little pink toes. Maybe when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-smith/he-was-a-baby-once-he-must-have-been-sweet-and-clean-and-his-mother/)

[Betty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-smith/)

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> [There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-are-some-secrets-which-do-not-permit-themselves-to-be-told-men-2/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“Thaddeus absorbed her, imprinting his mind with her curly brown hair, her delicate chin, her gorgeous big eyes. “You need time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/staci-morrison/thaddeus-absorbed-her-imprinting-his-mind-with-her-curly-brown-hair/)

Staci Morrison

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                        "text": "“Already it is twilight down in the Laredito. Bats fly forth from their roostings in courthouse and tower and circle the quarter. The air is full of the smell of burning charcoal. Children and dogs squat by the mud stoops and gamecocks flap and settle in the branches of the fruit trees. They go afoot, these comrades, down along a bare adobe wall. Band music carries dimly from the square. They pass a watercart in the street and they pass a hole in the wall where by the light of a small forgefire an old man beats out shapes of metal. They pass in a doorway a young girl whose beauty becomes the flowers about. They arrive at last before a wooden door. It is hinged into a larger door or gate and all must step over the foot-high sill where a thousand boots have scuffled away the wood, where fools in their hundreds have tripped or fallen or tottered drunkenly into the street. They pass along a ramada in a courtyard by an old grape arbor where small fowl nod in the dusk among the gnarled and barren vines and they enter a cantina where the lamps are lit and they cross stooping under a low beam to a bar and belly up one two three. There is an old disordered Mennonite in this place and he turns to study them. A thin man in a leather weskit, a black and straightbrim hat set square on his head, a thin rim of whiskers. The recruits order glasses of whiskey and drink them down and order more. There are monte games at tables by the wall and there are whores at another table who look the recruits over. The recruits stand sideways along the bar with their thumbs in their belts and watch the room. They talk among themselves of the expedition in loud voices and the old Mennonite shakes a rueful head and sips his drink and mutters. They'll stop you at the river, he says. The second corporal looks past his comrades. Are you talking to me? At the river. Be told. They'll jail you to a man. Who will? The United States Army. General Worth. They hell they will. Pray that they will. He looks at his comrades. He leans toward the Mennonite. What does that mean, old man? Do ye cross that river with yon filibuster armed ye'll not cross it back. Don't aim to cross it back. We goin to Sonora. What's it to you, old man? The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making into a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs. But they berated the old man and swore at him until he moved off down the bar muttering, and how else could it be? How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood. They drank on and the wind blew in the streets and the stars that had been overhead lay low in the west and these young men fell afoul of others and words were said that could not be put right again and in the dawn the kid and the second corporal knelt over the boy from Missouri who had been named Earl and they spoke his name but he never spoke back. He lay on his side in the dust of the courtyard. The men were gone, the whores were gone. An old man swept the clay floor within the cantina. The boy lay with his skull broken in a pool of blood, none knew by whom. A third one came to be with them in the courtyard. It was the Mennonite. A warm wind was blowing and the east held a gray light. The fowls roosting among the grapevines had begun to stir and call. There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto, said the Mennonite. He had been holding his hat in his hands and now he set it upon his head again and turned and went out the gate.”",
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                        "text": "“I was reading an old text on the exploits of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and I –“ Senji stopped, going very pale, turned, and gaped at Garion’s grandfather. “It’s a terrible letdown, isn’t it?” Beldin said. “We always told him he ought to try to look more impressive.” “You’re in no position to talk,” the old man said. “You’re the one with the earthshaking reputation.” Beldin shrugged. “I’m just a flunky. I’m along for comic relief.” “You’re really enjoying this, aren’t you, Beldin?” “I haven’t had so much fun in years. Wait until I tell Pol.” “You keep your mouth shut, you hear me?” “Yes, O mighty Belgarath,” Beldin said mockingly.”",
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                        "text": "The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes.\" \"The whole of the realm denies it, brother,\" said Renley. \"Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.",
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                        "text": "“For, when we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of him is groundless? No. As much as they fear will come upon them, possibly far more. But there is something beyond their fear,—a divine fate which they cannot withstand, because it works along with the human individuality which the divine individuality has created in them. The wrath will consume what they call themselves; so that the selves God made shall appear, coming out with tenfold consciousness of being, and bringing with them all that made the blessedness of the life the men tried to lead without God. They will know that now first are they fully themselves. The avaricious, weary, selfish, suspicious old man shall have passed away. The young, ever young self, will remain. That which they thought themselves shall have vanished: that which they felt themselves, though they misjudged their own feelings, shall remain—remain glorified in repentant hope. For that which cannot be shaken shall remain. That which is immortal in God shall remain in man. The death that is in them shall be consumed.”",
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                        "text": "“Pointsman is the only one here maintaining his calm. He appears unruffled and strong. His lab coats have even begun lately to take on a Savile Row serenity, suppressed waist, flaring vents, finer material, rather rakishly notched lapels. In this parched and fallow time, he gushes affluence. After the baying has quieted down at last, he speaks, soothing: “There’s no danger.” “No danger?” screams Aaron Throwster, and the lot of them are off again muttering and growling. “Slothrop’s knocked out Dodson-Truck and the girl in one day!” “The whole thing’s falling apart, Pointsman!” “Since Sir Stephen came back, Fitzmaurice House has dropped out of our scheme, and there’ve been embarrassing inquires down from Duncan Sandys—“ “That’s the P.M.’s son-in-law, Pointsman, not good, not good!” “We’ve already begun to run into a deficit—“ “Funding,” IF you can keep your head, “is available, and will be coming in before long… certainly before we run into any serious trouble. Sir Stephen, far from being ‘knocked out,’ is quite happily at work at Fitzmaurice House, and is At Home there should any of you wish to confirm. Miss Borgesius is still active in the program, and Mr. Duncan Sandys is having all his questions answered. But best of all, we are budgeted well into fiscal ’46 before anything like a deficit begins to rear its head.” “Your Interested Parties again?” sez Rollo Groast. “Ah, I noticed Clive Mossmoon from Imperial Chemicals closeted with you day before yesterday,” Edwin Treacle mentions now. “Clive Mossmoon and I took an organic chemistry course or two together back at Manchester. Is ICI one of our, ah, sponsors, Pointsman?” “No,” smoothly, “Mossmoon, actually, is working out of Malet Street these days. I’m afraid we were up to nothing more sinister than a bit of routine coordination over the Schwarzkommando business.” “The hell you were. I happen to know Clive’s at ICI, managing some sort of polymer research.” They stare at each other. One is lying, or bluffing, or both are, or all of the above. But whatever it is Pointsman has a slight advantage. By facing squarely the extinction of his program, he has gained a great of bit of Wisdom: that if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. But survival depends on having strong enough desires—on knowing the System better than the other chap, and how to use it. It’s work, that’s all it is, and there’s no room for any extrahuman anxieties—they only weaken, effeminize the will: a man either indulges them, or fights to win, und so weiter. “I do wish ICI would finance part of this,” Pointsman smiles. “Lame, lame,” mutters the younger Dr. Groast. “What’s it matter?” cries Aaron Throwster. “If the old man gets moody at the wrong time this whole show can prang.” “Brigadier Pudding will not go back on any of his commitments,” Pointsman very steady, calm, “we have made arrangements with him. The details aren’t important.” They never are, in these meetings of his.”",
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                        "text": "“That's the way it always is,\" said the old man. \"It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck.\" \"Why is that?\" \"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.”",
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                        "text": "I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.",
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                        "text": "“Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. It’s sittin’ up all night with some poor old man who’s leavin’ the world, taking away such pain as you can, comfortin’ their terror, seein’ ‘em safely on their way…and then cleanin’ ‘em up, layin’ ‘em out, making ‘em neat for the funeral, and helpin’ the weeping widow strip the bed and wash the sheets—which is, let me tell you, no errand for the fainthearted—and stayin’ up the next night to watch over the coffin before the funeral, and then going home and sitting down for five minutes before some shouting angry man comes bangin’ on your door ‘cuz his wife’s havin’ difficulty givin’ birth to their first child and the midwife’s at her wits’ end and then getting up and fetching your bag and going out again…We all do that, in our own way, and she does it better’n me, if I was to put my hand on my heart. That is the root and heart and soul and center of witchcraft, that is. The soul and center!”",
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                        "text": "In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.",
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                        "text": "“I only wanted books—nothing more—only books, only words, it was never anything but words—give them to me, I don’t have any! Look, see, I don’t have any! Look, I’m naked, barefoot, I’m standing before you—nothing in my pants pockets, nothing under my shirt or under my arm! They’re not stuck in my beard! Inside—look—there aren’t any inside either—everything’s been turned inside out, there’s nothing there! Only guts! I’m hungry! I’m tormented!... What do you mean there’s nothing? Then how can you talk and cry, what words are you frightened with, which ones do you call out in your sleep? Don’t nighttime cries roam inside you, a thudding twilight murmur, a fresh morning shriek? There they are words—don’t you recognize them? They’re writhing inside you, trying to get out! There they are! They’re yours! From wood, stone, roots, growing in strength, a dull mooing and whining in the gut is trying to get out; a piece of tongue curls, the torn nostrils swell in torment. That’s how the bewitched, beaten, and twisted snuffle with a mangy wail, their boiled white eyes locked up in closets, their vein torn out, backbone gnawed; that’s right, that’s how your pushkin writhe, or mushkin—what is in my name for you?—pushkin-mushkin, flung upon the hillock like a shaggy black idol, forever flattened by fences, up to his ears in di, the pushkin-stump, legless, six-fingered, biting his tongue, nose in his chest—and his head can’t be raised!—pushkin, tearing off the poisoned shirt, ropes, chains, caftan, noose, that wooden heaviness: let me out, let me out! What is in my name for you? Why does the wind spin in the gully? How many roads must a man walk down? What do you want, old man? Why do you trouble me? My Lord, what is the matter? Ennui, oh, Nin! Grab the inks and cry! Open the dungeon wide! I’m here! I’m innocent! I’m with you! I’m with you!”",
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                        "text": "“She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, and his hair was very untidy. It stuck up at the back, just like Harry's did. Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection. \"Mum?\" he whispered. \"Dad?\" They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees -- Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life. The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.”",
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                        "text": "“Waste of time,\" said the leper. \"There's a dozen or more beggars who come here every day, pretending to be cripples, hiring themselves out to the holy men. A couple of drachmas and they'll swear they've been crippled or blind for years then stage a bloody miraculous recovery. Holy men? Healers? Don't make me laugh.\" \"But this man is different,\" said Christ. \"I remember him,\" said the blind man. \"Jesus. He come here on the sabbath, like a fool. The priests wouldn't let him heal anyone on sabbath. He should've known that.\" \"But he did heal someone,\" said the lame man. \"Old Hiram. You remember that. He told him to take up his bed and walk.\" \"Bloody rubbish,\" said the blind man. \"Hiram went as far as the temple gate, then he lay down and went on begging. Old Sarah told me. He said what was the use of taking his living away? Begging was the only thing he knew how to do. You and your blether about goodness,\" he said, turning to Christ, \"where's the goodness in throwing an old man out into the street without a trade, without a home, without a penny? Eh? That Jesus is asking too much of people.\" \"But he was good,\" said the lame man. \"I don't care what you say. You could feel it, you could see it in his eyes.\" \"I never saw it,\" said the blind man.”",
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                        "text": "“How can school help you with the land?\" he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. \"Learning clears the mind,\" he said, \"and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth.\" \"Do you know how to read?\" Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. \"These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.”",
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                        "text": "We're not obsessed by anything, you see,\" insisted Ford. \"...\" \"And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.\" \"I care about lots of things,\" said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. \"Such as?\" \"Well,\" said the old man, \"life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords.\" \"Would you die for them?\" \"Fjords?\" blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. \"No.\" \"Well then.\" \"Wouldn't see the point, to be honest.",
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                        "text": "“Adrian took a few steps toward me. \"Not bad, Sage. I think you just scared old man Mazur.\" I felt a smile of my own begin to form. \"I don't know about that, but it felt kind of good.\" \"You should back talk people more often,\" he said. We grinned at each other, and as he regarded me fondly, I felt that same queasy feeling return.”",
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                        "text": "“Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese ’Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants or in Fuchsia Dunlop’s book, but Taiwanese Dan-Dan. The trademark of ours is the use of clear pork bone stock, sesame paste, and crushed peanuts on top. You can add chili oil if you want, but I take it clean because when done right, you taste the essence of pork and the bitterness of sesame paste; the texture is somewhere between soup and ragout. Creamy, smooth, and still soupy. A little za cai (pickled radish) on top, chopped scallions, and you’re done. I realized that day, it’s the simple things in life. It’s not about a twelve-course tasting of unfamiliar ingredients or mass-produced water-added rib-chicken genetically modified monstrosity of meat that makes me feel alive. It’s getting a bowl of food that doesn’t have an agenda. The ingredients are the ingredients because they work and nothing more. These noodles were transcendent not because he used the best produce or protein or because it was locally sourced, but because he worked his dish. You can’t buy a championship. Did this old man invent Dan-Dan Mian? No. But did he perfect it with techniques and standards never before seen? Absolutely. He took a dish people were making in homes, made it better than anyone else, put it on front street, and established a standard. That’s professional cooking. To take something that already speaks to us, do it at the highest level, and force everyone else to step up, too. Food at its best uplifts the whole community, makes everyone rise to its standard. That’s what that Dan-Dan Mian did. If I had the honor of cooking my father’s last meal, I wouldn’t think twice. Dan-Dan Mian with a bullet, no question.”",
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                        "text": "“That’s the Thornton place up there atop yon hill,” the farmer said, pointing. Lucinda gazed in mounting anger at the large, but unimpressive cottage that was barely visible through the thick trees, then she turned the full force of her authority on the hapless farmer. “You’re mistaken, my good man,” she said stoutly. “No gentleman of consequence or sense would live in such a godforsaken place as this. Kindly turn this decrepit vehicle around and return us to the village whence we came so that we can ask directions again. There was obviously a misunderstanding.” At that, both the horse and the farmer swung their heads around and looked at her with identical expressions of weary resentment. The horse remained silent, but the farmer had heard Lucinda’s irate complaints for the last twelve miles, and he was heartily sick of them. “See here, my lady,” he began, but Lucinda cut him off. “Do not address me as ‘my lady.’ ‘Miss Throckmorton-Jones’ will do very well.” “Aye. Well, whoever ye be, this is as far as I’m takin’ ye, and that thar is the Thornton cottage.” “You can’t mean to abandon us here!” she said as the tired old man exhibited a surge of renewed energy-obviously brought on by the prospect of ridding himself of his unwanted guests-and leapt off the wagon, whereupon he began to drag their trunks and bandboxes off the wagon and onto the side of the narrow ledge that passed for a road.”",
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                        "text": "“Bishop on \"At the Fishhouses\" At the last minute, after I’d had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I found I’d said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope they corrected it all right. 2 Quite a few lines of \"At the Fishhouses\" came to me in a dream, and the scene— which was real enough, I’d recently been there—but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a later dream”",
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                        "text": "“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded –with what caution –with what foresight –with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it –oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly –very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! –would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously –oh, so cautiously –cautiously (for the hinges creaked) –I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights –every night just at midnight –but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.”",
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                        "text": "“She says, \"I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me.\" Here, the funeral parade stops. At this point, Comrade Snarky is a victim among victims. The rest of us — just her supporting cast. Mrs. Clark, leading us, she looks back and says, \"He what?\" And from behind his camera, Agent Tattletale says, \"Me, too. He raped me first.\" Saint Gut-Free says, \"Well what the hell...He poked me, too.\" As if poor skinny Saint Gut-Free had enough ass left to poke. And Mrs. Clark says, \"This is not funny. Not in the least.\" \"Tough,\" the Matchmaker tells her. \"It's wasn't funny, either, when you raped me.\" Shaking his ponytail, the Duke of Vandals tells the Matchmaker, \"You couldn't pay to get raped.”",
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                        "text": "“We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over a lifetime it all adds up. That's why we're here, William. We're a a part of him, who he is, just as he is a part of us. You still don't understand, do you?\" I didn't. But as I stared at the man and he stared back at me, in my father's dream I remembered where we'd met before. \"And what did my father do for you?\" I asked him, and the old man smiled. \"He made me laugh,\" he said.”",
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                        "text": "“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to a bear. A drunk driver took my son’s life seventeen years ago and my wife has never been the same since. I’ve always seen the question of abortion in terms of Fred. I seem to be helpless to see it any other way, just as helpless as you were to stop your giggles when they came on you at that poetry reading, Frannie. Your mother would argue against it for all the standard reasons. Morality, she’d say. A morality that goes back two thousand years. The right to life. All our Western morality is based on that idea. I’ve read the philosophers. I range up and down them like a housewife with a dividend check in the Sears and Roebuck store. Your mother sticks with the Reader’s Digest, but it’s me that ends up arguing from feeling and her from the codes of morality. I just see Fred. He was destroyed inside. There was no chance for him. These right-to-life biddies hold up their pictures of babies drowned in salt, and arms and legs scraped out onto a steel table, so what? The end of a life is never pretty. I just see Fred, lying in that bed for seven days, everything that was ruined pasted over with bandages. Life is cheap, abortion makes it cheaper. I read more than she does, but she is the one who ends up making more sense on this one. What we do and what we think… those things are so often based on arbitrary judgments when they are right. I can’t get over that. It’s like a block in my throat, how all true logic seems to proceed from irrationality. From faith. I’m not making much sense, am I?”",
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                        "text": "A 24 year boy seeing out from the train window, shouted, Dad, look the trees are going behind! Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old's childish behavior with pity. Suddenly he again exclaimed Dad, look the clouds are running with us! The couple couldn't resist and said to the old man, Why don't you take your son to a good doctor? Old man smiled and said I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today. Think before you speak!",
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                        "text": "“from the upcoming novel, Agent White: A figure dressed all in black ran across the rooftops in the rain. A black cloak fluttered behind him as he ran two and sometimes three stories above the sidewalk where Ezra Beckitt stood. Long silver hair tied back in a ponytail flew out behind him, exposing ears that came to sharp points. His left ear was pierced with a silver ring, high up in the cartilage. Like the old man, this black figure wore a sword; but this weapon was long and thin, slightly curved. The blade stuck out behind him for three and a half feet, almost seeming to glow against the grey backdrop of the rain-soaked cityscape. Suddenly, the figure in black looked down into the street and saw Ezra there. More, he saw Ezra seeing him. Startled, he lost his sure footing and slid down the steep incline of an older building’s metal roof, the busy street below waiting to catch him in an asphalt embrace. The figure in black got his feet under himself and pushed, flying out into space above the street. For an eternity Ezra watched him, suspended in the air and the rain with his cloak spread in midnight ripples around him, and then the figure in black flipped neatly and landed on the sidewalk half a block away. The pavement cracked, pushing up in twisted humps around the figure in black’s tall leather boots. Before the sound of this impact even reached Ezra the figure was up and gone, dashing through the morning throngs waiting for buses or headed to the ‘tram station. Ezra saw a girl’s hair blow back in the wind created by his passing, but she never noticed him. A young techie blinked his 20-20’s (Ezra’s own enhanced senses picked up the augmented eyes because of a strange, silvery glow in the pupils) and turned halfway around, almost seeing him. And then the figure in black darted into an alley, gone. Ezra drew his service weapon and ran after, pushing his way through the sidewalk traffic. Turning into the alley he skidded to a stop, stunned; the figure in black was still there. The alley was just wide enough to accommodate Ezra’s shoulders- he couldn’t have held his arms out at his sides. Dumpsters spilled their trash out onto the wet pavement. The alley ended in a fire door, the back exit of a store on the next street over. Even if it was locked, Ezra didn’t think it would pose a real problem for the figure in black. No, he was waiting for him. Ezra advanced with his gun out in front of him, and his eyes locked with the figure in black’s. His were completely black- no pupils, no corneas, only solid black that held no light. The figure in black smiled, exposing teeth that looked very sharp, and laid his hand on the hilt of his sword. He wore leather gloves with the fingers cut off. His fingers were very long and very white. “Don’t even think about it,” Ezra said, clicking the safety off his weapon. “I am a Hatis City Guard, an if you move I will put you down.” This only seemed to amuse the figure in black, whose smiled widened as he drew his sword. Ezra opened fire.”",
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                        "text": "“Well,then,let's make sure all his flying is directed at you first, shall we?\" Anthony retorted, and opening the door to Jason's study,began to immediately place blame where it was due. \"Jason,old man, I tried to calm this great hulking bull down last night, indeed I did,but he was having none of it.Blames me-\" \"Great hulking bull?\" James interrupted, one golden brow raised sharply. \"-because Greoge ain't talking to him,\" Anthony continued without pause. \"And now he's got me in the same bloody boat, because Roslynn ain't said a word to me since.\" \"Great hulking bull?\" James repeated. Anthony glanced at him and smirked, \"The shoe fits, believe me.”",
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                        "text": "“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point in space, the poet sees everything that happens in one point in time. Lost in thought, he taps his knee with his wandlike pencil, and at the same instant a car (New York license plate) passes along the road, a child bangs the screen door of a neighbouring porch, an old man yawns in a misty Turkestan orchard, a granule of cinder-grey sand is rolled by the wind on Venus, a Docteur Jacques Hirsch in Grenoble puts on his reading glasses, and trillions of other such trifles occur - all forming an instantaneous and transparent organism of events, of which the poet (sitting in a lawn chair in Ithaca, N.Y.) is the nucleus.”",
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                        "text": "I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.",
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                        "text": "“He remembered the time hi fished the female of a pair of swordfish. The male always lets the female eat first, and she, by biting the hook, struggled in a wild, desperate and panicky battle that soon exhausted her. All the time the male stayed with her, crossing the line and circling her partner on the surface. He was so close that the old man had been afraid that he would cut the rope with his tail, which was sharpened like a scythe and almost of that shape and size. The old man put the hook in, hit her, caught the sword, edge like sandpaper and pounded on the tip of the head until her color became almost like the back of a mirror, and then, with the boy's help, lifted her up to put her on board. The male stayed on the side of the boat. Later, when the old man cleaned the strings and prepared the harpoon, the male jumped very high in the air, next to the boat, to see where his partner where, and finally he plunged into the deepest, with blue-reddish wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and with all stripes of the same color in sight. \"He was beautiful,\" recalled the old man, \"and he stayed until the end.”",
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                        "text": "Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.",
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                        "text": "“I'd never have believed I'd see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time I think of it. I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.”",
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                        "text": "“He was a baby once. He must have been sweet and clean and his mother kissed his little pink toes. Maybe when it thundered at night she came to his crib and fixed his blanket better and whispered that he mustn't be afraid, that mother was here. Then she picked him up and put her cheek on his head and said that he was her own sweet baby. He might have been a boy like my brother, running in and out of the house and slamming the door. And while his mother scolded him she was thinking that maybe he'll be president some day. Then he was a young man, strong and happy. When he walked down the street, the girls smiled and turned to watch him. He smiled back and maybe he winked at the prettiest one. I guess he must have married and had children and they thought he was the most wonderful papa in the world the way he worked hard and bought them toys for Christmas. Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep living even though he's so old and there's nothing to be happy about anymore.”",
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                        "text": "There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.",
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