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When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, "I'd like you to work in my shop. two customers came in today while you were working, and that's a good omen."
People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd. But they really don't know what they are saying. Just as I had not realized that for so many years I had been speaking a language without words to my sheep
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The topic disappeared from the front pages, but the hypotheses continued: she had been kidnapped, she had left home because of physical abuse (photo of a waiter saying that we often argued. I remember that I did, in fact, have an argument with Esther in a restaurant about her views on a South American writer, which were completely opposed to mine). A British tabloid alleged--and luckily this had no serious repercussions--that my wife had gone into hiding with a Islamist terrorist organization.
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"My book? Hah! What book?? Some part of me doesn't want to draw or think about Auschwitz. I can't visualize it clearly, and I can't BEGIN to imagine what it felt like."
"What Auschwitz felt like? Hmm ... How can I explain? ... BOO!"
"YII!"
"It felt a little like that. But ALWAYS! From the moment you got to the gate until the very end."
From page 46 of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens:"He will be glad to have you on my recommendation. Make yourself of use to him, and you'll rise to be a partner in the establishment in no time. Bless me, only think! if he were to die, why your fortune's made at once"
"To be sure" said poor Nicholas, delighted with the thousand visionary ideas that his good spirits and inexperience were conjuring up before him. "Or suppose some young nobelman who is being educated at the hall were to take a fancy to me and get his father to appoint me his travelling tutor, and when we come back from the continent, procured me some handsome appointment. Eh uncle?"
"To be sure"
"And who know, but when he came to see me when I was settled (as he would of course) he might fall in love with Kate, who would be keeping my house and-and-marry her, eh Uncle? Who knows?"
Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsFor this reason, among our Higher Classes, "Feeling" is discouraged or absolutely forbidden. From the cradle their children, instead of going to the Public Elementary schools (where the aret of Feeling is taught), are sent to higher Seminaries of an exclusive character; and at our illustrious University, to "feel" is regarded as a most serious fault, involving Rustication for the first offence, and Expulsion for the second.
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"As I sat cutting out blue flannel jackets to-day, at the rooms, I felt very anxious about father, and thought how lonely and helpless we should be, if anything happened to him. It was not a wise thing to do; but I kept on worrying, till an old man came in, with an order for some clothes. He sat down near me, and I began to talk to him; for he looked poor and tired and anxious."
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"Only one of those whimsicle little incidents that will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal."
Gotta love Holmes.
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She looked at me quickly. "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see him again, or I will."
She left me standing there with my mouth dropped open, and the blue Mustang vroomed off.
We walked home, mostly in silence. I wanted to ask Johnny if those were the same Socs that had beaten him up, but I didn't mention it.
Lyn M wrote: "From The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries: New Expanded Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's not from page 46, but it is my favorite quote so far: "Only one of those whimsicl..."
I can just hear Robert Downey Jr. saying this line.
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"Only one o..."
He did make a good Holmes. Just the right kind of quirky character!
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When Lindström manages to finish his masterpiece, that 'sand hour glass' -- which is described, not coincidentally, like one of Dalí's melting clocks -- what does he do? He destroys the painting. And in his final discourse, he states explicity that homage should be paid to the Devil, because all his work is the Devil's work.
(This book isn't on the Literature shelf, but it's a fascinating little gem by the author of The Oxford Murders, so I wanted to post a quote for people anyway.)
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When Madame Want first saw what I had done to the fan, she pursed her lips in disapproval. Than, after a long moment, she nodded knowingly. "This is truly a perfect match. These two girls are not just sames in the eight characters, they are alike in their horse spirits aw well. his will be ... interesting."
From The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeMy head, I said, is off.
Looks on to me, Dad said. Very on.
Oh, Rosie, no! Mom said. She sprinkled some pepper onto her dish too and then leaned over to hug her forehead into her side. You have a beautiful head, she said. A fine beautiful girl in there.
No quotation marks in this book. Takes some getting used to.
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