“There are many different ways to revise a cookbook. Faced with the task of updating Joy in the mid-1990s, my father, Ethan,”
― Joy of Cooking
― Joy of Cooking
“But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“With all this talk about taking my life, why have I never attempted it? Answer: I have an overwhelming desire to live.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
“There were no clues left by the murderer inside the judge’s chambers. No fingerprints. Nothing. The only thing found that was out of the ordinary was a single strand of long auburn hair on the window ledge. A single strand of hair from an unknown female. All dead ends. From my initial perspective, the police were as thorough as they could have been.”
― Appellate Judge
― Appellate Judge
“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
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