The buccaneers discussed his proposal before putting it to a vote: pirate crews were democracies ahead of their time, with egalitarian practices born both of their disdain for classism and their prior experiences at sea with whip-happy
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“The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move. ”
― The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
― The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
“Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy’s mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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