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People don’t change very much, which usually makes the dumb ones easy to find.
How’s life?” “Same as it ever was: gift wrapped, tied with a red bow, and handed to someone else.”
The personnel manager called himself a human resources manager and, like personnel managers the world over, was one of the least personable people one could meet.
anyone who could happily reduce individuals to resources, to the same level as oil, bricks, and canaries in coal mines, probably shouldn’t be allowed to have any human relations that didn’t involve locks and prison bars.
She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light,
LOL
Those who marry for money usually end up earning it.
In an autopsy, the body is first photographed, clothed and naked.
Eadem mutata resurgo. (Though changed, I shall arise the same.)
On the Casuarina Coast of Indonesian New Guinea lives a tribe called the Asmat. They are twenty thousand strong and the terror of every other tribe near them. In their language Asmat means “the people, the human beings,”
The Asmat have a word for these others: they call them manowe. It means “the edible ones.”
I think that what I wanted was a power I could not have: the power to perceive evil, the ability to look at the faces in a crowded room and see the signs of depravity and corruption.
great superpower!
This man, who had killed and tortured and who had ordered others to kill and torture in his name, had found in his own son a darkness that was beyond naming, a lightless place where slain children lay, the black heart of every dead thing.
All things decay, all things must end, the evil as well as the good.
I am my father’s son, with all that entails.
THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, only patterns we do not see.
indeed
“But I let it go. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.”
a wise reminder
