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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often—he searched for a simile, found one in his work—torches, blazing away
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“Every choice you make will set you on a different path. I am hopeful that you will come to find the right path for you.” “How do I know?” “You won’t,” my mother had said. “But that is the beauty of life. It’s not the destination. We are all headed for the same destination,” she said, winking at me playfully, which I thought about later and thought was a little horrific, “but the journey is what matters.”
― Chords of Fate
― Chords of Fate
“The voters, by themselves inconsiderable unities, acquire a value in the hands of dexterous agents. This value is realised by many means—mainly, by bribery in innumerable forms, from gifts of money and trifling articles, to the distribution of places in the services, the financial departments, and the administration. Little by little a class of electors has been formed which lives by the sale of votes to one or another of the political organisations.”
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
“The Mesoamericans had a rain god named Tlaloc. Supposedly, they would sacrifice children to him by tearing out their hearts and engaging in cannibalism. It was popular in the 20th century to view these records as exaggerations of the Spanish and their aboriginal allies, a kind of historical propaganda, which is very common among conquerors. But then we started finding the bones. Little bones. Just like at Carthage.”
― Demon Ex Machina
― Demon Ex Machina
“For example, Britain today is suffering from an “epidemic” of “knife crime.” To wit: every day in Great Britain, 60 people are stabbed or mugged with a knife. (Admire, for a moment, the passive voice. Presumably the knives are floating disembodied in the air, directing themselves with Jedi powers.)”
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
“There is no subject on which opinions differ so widely as this matter of finding the way to a place. To the man who knows, it is simplicity itself. Probably he really does imagine that he goes straight on, ignoring the fact that for him the choice of three roads, all more or less straight, has no perplexities. The man who does not know feels as if he were in a maze.”
― Best of P. G. Wodehouse (Set of 3 Books) Mike/ Piccadilly Jim/ My Man Jeeves
― Best of P. G. Wodehouse (Set of 3 Books) Mike/ Piccadilly Jim/ My Man Jeeves
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