“Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is seldom described in detail, whose name alone, when reported as news or history, gives many war enthusiasts a sort of post-coital satisfaction. It is, in the imagination of combat’s fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called “mopping up.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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