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“In the beginning, long ago, he fled his country, one of those bland, flat communist lands, and as a young immigrant got hired to work on a whaling ship. At that time, he had only a few English words under his belt, intermittent pinpoints between “yes” and “no,” just exactly enough to answer the simple grunts the guys on the ship would exchange among themselves.”
― Flights
― Flights
“But war is a terrible thing," said Tip, thoughtfully. "This war will be pleasant," replied the girl, cheerfully. "Many of you will be slain!" continued the boy, in an awed voice. "Oh, no", said Jinjur. "What man would oppose a girl, or dare to harm her? And there is not an ugly face in my entire Army." Tip laughed.”
― The Illustrated Land of Oz
― The Illustrated Land of Oz
“Per favore, non usare la parola ‘rumore’,” ammonì. “Quando si tratta di mare, parla di ‘suono’. Un suono che cambia in continuazione a seconda delle ore, della direzione e dell’intensità della corrente.” “Come lo descriveresti a chi non l’ha mai sentito?” “Hai presente l’inizio del Bolero di Ravel? Il rullio in crescendo del tamburo solo? È questo che senti quando il Sole e la Luna si allineano e il risucchio del mare diventa più forte. Un monotono pianissimo che poi, lentamente, ti trascina e diventa fragore.”
― Una voce dal Profondo
― Una voce dal Profondo
“than individual inventions or amendments. That is not to say that all demotic innovations are benevolent. But if you listen to many voices and stories and discern a deep and complex pattern emerging, you can usually determine what is real and what has been airbrushed for questionable agendas or corrupted by flash mobs of narcissists.”
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
“No. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings, is easily moved away. Mr. Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on you—which said Colonel Wallis I imagine to be in himself a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had better not, and he repeats it all to her.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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