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"Picking this one back up after a brief hiatus. We're up to ~March/April of 1973 and things are slowly coming out. Ready to watch Nixon get WRECKED." — May 03, 2024 07:20AM
"Picking this one back up after a brief hiatus. We're up to ~March/April of 1973 and things are slowly coming out. Ready to watch Nixon get WRECKED." — May 03, 2024 07:20AM
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"If you have any kind of interest in music and/or history, you need to be reading Bob Stanley. This is just as good as I hoped it would be." — Jan 29, 2024 06:33AM
"If you have any kind of interest in music and/or history, you need to be reading Bob Stanley. This is just as good as I hoped it would be." — Jan 29, 2024 06:33AM
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"Not exactly sure what page I'm on (my Kindle copy doesn't have page numbers) but really digging this so far. Currently going through Darwin etc." — Nov 09, 2023 06:27AM
"Not exactly sure what page I'm on (my Kindle copy doesn't have page numbers) but really digging this so far. Currently going through Darwin etc." — Nov 09, 2023 06:27AM
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
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“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Ask Josh Ritter - March 11, 2013
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