“Endeavour to make circumstances subject to me, and not me subject to circumstances.”
“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
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“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.”
― Travels in Siberia
― Travels in Siberia
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.”
― Sketches by Boz
― Sketches by Boz
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