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You will be betrayed this week, time and time again, by your own ch'i.

The Onion


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Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

Edith Wharton


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We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Vladimir Nabokov

Tag: life fate lolita nabokov



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It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

E.M. Forster


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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

A.S. Byatt

Tag: words letters



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Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

John Lubbock

Tag: science books education knowledge learning hate mind memory mistake teaching forget instruction facts worship importance confusion book-learning cultivation dry-facts lessons mental-food pupil strain tastes



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At school I was careful not to look like I watched everything, but I did.

Amanda Davis

Tag: first-sentence



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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain

Tag: humor revenge healthy-living



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If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Thomas Babington Macaulay


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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Katherine Dunn

Tag: family first-sentence chicken carnivals freaks



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