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The India of this trip is not the one I remember from fifteen years earlier. Now, I find my preferred type of toilet rather than ones that force you to squat and, inevitably, pee all over yourself. (White people have a lot of flaws, but
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“Since she started teaching and become a mother, she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”
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“She was happy, in a bubble, and the only reason to pop it was on the grounds that bubbles were not real life. But bubbles made life tolerable, and the trick was to blow as many as possible. There were new-baby bubbles, and honeymoon bubbles, and success-at-work bubbles, and new-friends bubbles, and great-holiday bubbles, and even tiny TV-series bubbles, dinner bubbles, party bubbles. They all burst without intervention, and then it was a matter of getting through to the next one. Life hadn’t been fizzy for a while. It had been hard.”
― Just Like You
― Just Like You
“A waitress had come out of nowhere. “What can I get you?”
I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. “Uh... five... beers?”
“Five beers.”
“Yup!”
“Any particular kind?”
“…good ones?”
“Can I see your ID?”
“Goddammit.” I handed it over.”
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I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. “Uh... five... beers?”
“Five beers.”
“Yup!”
“Any particular kind?”
“…good ones?”
“Can I see your ID?”
“Goddammit.” I handed it over.”
―
“(Jude) had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor—which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of mind. Yet he perceived with despondency that, taken all round, he was a man of too many passions to make a good clergyman; the utmost he could hope for was that in a life of constant internal warfare between flesh and spirit the former might not always be victorious.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“´The common story, sir!" said Tom; "the story of a common mind. Your governess cannot win the confidence and respect of your children, forsooth! Let her begin by winning yours, and see what happens then." . . . "When you tell me," resumed Tom, who was not the less indignant for keeping himself quiet, "that my sister has no innate power of commanding the respect of your children, I must tell you it is not so; and that she has. She is as well bred, as well taught, as well qualified by nature to command respect, as any hirer of a governess you know. But when you place her at a disadvantage in reference to every servant in your house, how can you suppose, if you have the gift of common sense, that she is not in a tenfold worse position in reference to your daughters?”
― Martin Chuzzlewit
― Martin Chuzzlewit
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