“There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”
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“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”
― The Education of Little Tree
― The Education of Little Tree
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.”
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“CAPT. J. W. SIMMONS, master of the steamship Pensacola, had just as little regard for weather as the Louisiana’s Captain Halsey. He was a veteran of eight hundred trips across the Gulf and commanded a staunch and sturdy ship, a 1,069-ton steel-hulled screw-driven steam freighter built twelve years earlier in West Hartlepool, England, and now owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Friday morning the ship was docked at the north end of 34th Street, in the company of scores of other ships, including the big Mallory liner Alamo, at 2,237 tons, and the usual large complement of British ships, which on Friday included the Comino, Hilarius, Kendal Castle, Mexican, Norna, Red Cross, Taunton, and the stately Roma in from Boston with its Captain Storms. As the Pensacola’s twenty-one-man crew readied the ship for its voyage to the city of Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf Coast, two men came aboard as Captain Simmons’s personal guests: a harbor pilot named R. T. Carroll and Galveston’s Pilot Commissioner J. M. O. Menard, from one of the city’s oldest families. At”
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
“I’m not doing anything with him.” “Well, maybe you should. Just don’t tell me about it. And make sure there’s at least a one million dollar donation to MCA involved.”
― The Syrian Virgin
― The Syrian Virgin
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