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“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
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“I neglected my clients and my own business to give myself to the contemplation of the mysteries which I had once beheld, yet which I could impart to no one, and found daily more difficult to reproduce even before my own mental vision.”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
“He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
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Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
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“The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!”
― The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
― The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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