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"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." — Sep 15, 2016 02:05PM
"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." — Sep 15, 2016 02:05PM
What appeared to be economic growth was activity fueled by people borrowing money they probably couldn’t afford to repay: by their rough count, worldwide debts, public and private, had more than doubled since 2002, from $84 trillion to $195
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“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.”
― Redshirts
― Redshirts
“I don't need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like... happens.”
― Such a Fun Age
― Such a Fun Age
“I gather sentences round, quotations, the literary equivalent of a cheerleading squad. Except that analogy’s screwy—cheerleaders cheer. I put up placards that make me feel bad.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“When you enter a beloved novel many times, you can come to feel that you possess it, that nobody else has ever lived there. You try not to notice the party of impatient tourists trooping through the kitchen (Pnin a minor scenic attraction en route to the canyon Lolita), or that shuffling academic army, moving in perfect phalanx, as they stalk a squirrel around the backyard (or a series of squirrels, depending on their methodology).”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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