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“Be careful what you wish for... your wish will visit you tenfold.”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“You see this robe that I wear?” Bellchambers caressingly touched the straight-hanging garment: “At last I have found something that will not bag at the knees.”
― Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry
― Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry
“Darwin is my copilot.”
― A Battle of Angels
― A Battle of Angels
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship.
It will keep the vultures at bay.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
It will keep the vultures at bay.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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