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The Godsend by Bernard Taylor

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had never met anyone like her before and, talking to her, I realised I had always seen actresses in my mind’s eye as something from a race apart—women who figured in divorce cases and sensational headlines; self-absorbed, emasculating

what an asshole

Chris’s Quotes

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

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“Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: antony-and-cleopatra

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“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: science

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“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

tags: humor, nature, travel-writing

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“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

tags: dress, good-humor, society

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Persephone Books specializes in rediscovering 20th century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century women writers and out of print books. Th ...more