What makes hospitals happiest is when the patient says he is having bowel movements.
“Her dreams are spare, lack the propulsion of a mission, her ambition is without traction.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me whithersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“In 1920, H. G. Wells, the futurist, already anxious about the direction of the modern world, wrote: “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
“And of course when I say that my dear father was a failure I mean it only in the grossest worldly sense. He was an intelligent good man, pure in heart.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
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