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“Instead of accepting that, I am writing this. I realize that what motivates most other writers in the world is the desire to have control over their obituary.”
― Mr. Bones
― Mr. Bones
“Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.”
― Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
― Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
“WE ARE BORN IN THE WILDS OF DARKNESS AND DIE
ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.”
― Bryant & May Off the Rails
ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.”
― Bryant & May Off the Rails
“Pallone spoke of a “fragmented health system” failing children. And he ended his remarks with a quote from Nobel laureate and poet Gabriela Mistral: “Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time. His bones are being formed. His blood is being made, his mind is being developed. To him, we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.”
― Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
― Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
“Or take for example the mystery of the coon cats, huge tailless cats with gray coats barred with black, which is why they are called coon cats. They are wild; they live in the woods and are very fierce. Once in a while a native brings in a kitten and raises it, and it is a pleasure to him, almost an honor, but coon cats are rarely even approximately tame. You take a chance of being raked or bitten all the time. These cats are obviously of Manx origin, and even interbreeding with tame cats they contribute taillessness. The story is that the great ancestors of the coon cats were brought by some ship’s captain and that they soon went wild. But I wonder where they get their size. They are twice as big as any Manx cat I ever saw. Could it be that they bred with bobcat or lynx? I don’t know. Nobody knows.”
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
Tom’s 2024 Year in Books
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