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“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.”
― The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
― The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
“Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.”
― Basin and Range
― Basin and Range
“...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourselves by witnessing its abundance in another...can hurt. Until it becomes, if we are lucky, an opening.”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
“50 percent of kids with ADHD were shown to no longer have symptoms after having their adenoids and tonsils removed.”
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
“These were the last words of advice Vonnegut wrote to be delivered to an audience: “And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.… I’m out of here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
― Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
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