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“Avelina finally decided to work on a story she had been writing to amuse Dorothea. It was about the daughter of an earl who… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome new lover,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“a rafter of turkeys, a murder of crows, an exaltation of larks… an unkindness of ravens.” — Margaux Gillis Copy Share Image
“At the end of the parapet, a long black coat lay neatly folded on the wall. At the other end stood my sister and… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature, her journey… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and a host of readers always offers the riches of stories, that we may be less deprived and disconsolate, and more human and humane; perhaps wiser, and kinder to ourselves and our brothers and other strangers.” — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share
“The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“That place where I was born was a cold town. Even the mountains stood away. They were not sure, no more than me, of that dark spot, those same mountains. There was a black river that flowed through the town, and if it had no grace for mortal beings, it did for swans, and many swans resorted there, and even… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share
“And there on the glass-like water glided the flock of swans, their white feathers a beacon in the darkness. Evelayn” — Sara B. Larson Copy Share Image
“All was murkiness, now, the landscape and woods, and far below, the dark brooding sweep of the sea. From a limb he could not… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“supreme minstrels of the air whose homely philosophy of the commonplace has made them beloved in almost every household in the land.” — R. Scott Williams Copy Share Image
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do… — Kaetlyn Osmond Copy Share Image
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her for her… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The scientific method asserts that one cannot prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Seeing more white swans may strengthen the hypothesis, but seeing a… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Crown Business, September 12, 2011 The Black… — Mario E. Moreira Copy Share Image