Grub first, then ethics.
“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky”
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“With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.
“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”
“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”
“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
“Your wife sounds like a clever woman."
"She is. I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.”
― Circe
"She is. I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.”
― Circe
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