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black is an excellent color for heat. If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat. Efficient radiation.
“If there’s a red dwarf in Canis Major, and it isn’t named Clifford, I’m going to say a swear word.”
― Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
― Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
“Out West all the smells are sucked up out of the baked land by the sun. And it’s as if all the colors in the ground are gobbled up by their sunsets, and so is the blue of the sky. The sky is high and pale and impersonal and you get the feeling it doesn’t belong to you at all, but that it is the property of the chamber of commerce. In the South the sky is humid and low and rich and it’s yours to smell and feel. In the West you’re only an observer. In the West someone sees a flower growing on a mountain and he writes a whole damned pamphlet about it.”
― Black Wings Has My Angel
― Black Wings Has My Angel
“It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you.”
― Falling Down
― Falling Down
“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
― Beautiful Creatures
― Beautiful Creatures
“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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