One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.
Joshua FerrisTag: kindlehighlight
Omne ignotum pro magnifico.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: kindlehighlight
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”
“And you're still not sorry,” I reply.
"I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks.
“No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
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Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.
Markus ZusakTag: kindlehighlight
Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.
Jane AustenTag: kindlehighlight
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
Lord DunsanyTag: wonder london kindlehighlight world-weariness new-worlds
Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be,” he invoked.
Karen EssexTag: kindlehighlight
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.
Oliver SacksTag: kindlehighlight
One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.
Karen EssexTag: kindlehighlight
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
Brandon SandersonTag: kindlehighlight
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