February 2012
11 posts
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“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing...”
– William Shakespeare, King Lear
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“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth
To have a thankless child!”
– William Shakespeare, King Lear
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“He opened the instrument, waiting for inspiration, and the memory that came to...”
– Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
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“At the heart of that much stronger “something” was sex, to be sure,...”
– Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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“Words themselves aren’t that important. Even if somebody says words that...”
– Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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“No matter how loudly they carried on, none of these young men ever stood out,...”
– Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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“On both sides of the water, houses for the magnates of the seventeenth century...”
– Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
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“The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely...”
– Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
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“A queen should weave peace, not punish the innocent
with loss of life for...”
– Beowulf
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“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her,...”
– James Joyce, “Araby,” Dubliners
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“I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with...”
– James Joyce, “Araby,” Dubliners
January 2012
32 posts
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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the...”
– James Joyce, “The Dead,” Dubliners
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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion,...”
– James Joyce, “The Dead,” Dubliners
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“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Love wasn’t about feeling at ease with someone, or bubbling with happiness...”
– Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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“These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing...”
– Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
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“There is no honor in dying of.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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“We went to the New York’s World Fair, saw what the past had been like,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“Why do we grapple with problems? We are only in the beginning. We have plenty of...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“‘That’s the thing about pain,’ Augustus said, and then glanced...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“‘You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“The government of the United States was developed under the idea that nobody...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“So I have developed in a previous talk, and I want to maintain here, that it is...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Values,” The Meaning of It All
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“It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Science,” The Meaning of It All
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“The belief of the ancients was the result of imagination. It was a poetic and...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Science,” The Meaning of It All
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“I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Science,” The Meaning of It All
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“The ideas I wish to describe are old ideas. There is practically nothing I am...”
– Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Science,” The Meaning of It All