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If you’re going to despair about life, the universe, and everything, you might as well do it on a Parisian café terrace.
Sounds like a plan.
Stephen Hayes liked this
he spotted the author on his Paris–New York flight back in March.
parallelepiped
Victor let life go on, and it’s enough to break your heart.
love means not being able to stop your heart trampling all over your intelligence.
“Seduction has always been a commonplace craft; breaking up a major art.”
ALL SMOOTH FLIGHTS are alike. Every turbulent flight is turbulent in its own way.
Ha!
The lowest trash always have the option of taking refuge in patriotism.
And at least put Victor instead of Victør; it would be a better spelling for data referencing services, right? Wrong.
Hear, hear. As a fellow user of that diacritical mark in my name, I concur.
Achieving success at the age of fifty is a little like finally being served the mustard when you’re on to dessert,
nah
Ben Sliney’s first day of work. He’d just taken up the post of director of operations at the Federal Aviation Administration. Two hours after the coffee and doughnuts of his welcoming do, he grounded four thousand two hundred airplanes, an isolated and unprecedented decision. Some days are just like that.
Someone somewhere in the galaxy has tossed a coin, and it really has stayed suspended in the air.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead!
any rapidly spreading airborne epidemic, like a coronavirus
INCE KING ARTHUR and his knights, if not before, military types have liked gathering in the round, most likely because circles profess equality while doing nothing to hide the true hierarchy.
without wishing to denigrate monotheism, the malfunctions of this world are much better explained by endless conflict between gods, plural.
You’ll also find a sweatshirt with a White House logo on it. The president insisted on autographing it for you personally.” Adrian doesn’t have time to get a word in before the head of protocol adds a straight-faced, “Don’t worry, Professor. We gave him a water-based pen, it’ll come out in the first wash.”
We’re currently altering the majority of flight comparison sites, eradicating traces of all trips.
1984
“Journalists have two enemies: censorship and information,”
I know no problem that can resist the absence of a solution.”
His eyes open wide in stupefaction. Stupefaction is a weak word.
you can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
alas
There is a life after death, particularly other people’s.
!!
‘We’re being presented with a new source of anguish here,
no one should ever love someone who feels so little love for them.
Time trickles by, and it de-weaponizes pain.
The only good language is a dead language,
The turbulence stopped and the sun came streaming into the cabin. That last sentence is also the definition of Prozac.”
haha
with the help of God and Instagram and Facebook,
Their message is obscure, but freedom of thought on the internet is all the more complete now that it’s clear that people have stopped thinking.
having two people in one life is one person too many.
“That evil was Elpis, the expectation of good—hope. It’s the most destructive of all evils. It is hope that stops us being proactive and hope that prolongs people’s suffering
In order to leave the man she loves a woman must dismantle the world.
WOW
