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The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the odeur de pension. The damp atmosphere sends a chill through you as you breathe it; it has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality; it ...more
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Bob Dylan
“Today, the medium contains multitudes and man needs only pick one thing he likes and feast exclusively on a stream dedicated to it. There’s twenty-four hours of blues, surf music, left-wing whining, right-wing badgering, any stripe of belief imaginable. There are stories as interesting as lemming suicides and totally true, like the fact that whale songs have inexplicably lowered in pitch 30 percent since the sixties. But these stories are buried on animal documentary channels, where they will probably never capture the general public’s imagination.”
Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

Ernest Hemingway
“You have a splendid rank. I don’t want you to have any more rank. It might go to your head. Oh, darling, I’m awfully glad you’re not conceited. I’d have married you even if you were conceited but it’s very restful to have a husband who’s not conceited.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
“His breath came in my face metallic with garlic and red wine.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success. These were three such doctors.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Charles Portis
“She had not insisted on one of those simple funerals that cause everybody so much trouble”
Charles Portis, The Dog of the South

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