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“I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.”
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“I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
― Corelli’s Mandolin
“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
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“Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It’s fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signorina, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open that the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful, whereas…otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us.”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
― Corelli’s Mandolin
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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