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Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always ideali...

Georges Simenon

Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always ideali...

Georges Simenon

Tags: criminals, idealists, crime fiction

Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. I suppose I should know who Pelops was?He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of th...

Rick Riordan

Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. I suppose I should know who Pelops was?He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of th...

Rick Riordan

Tags: wife, hazel, frank, prize, leo, prince pelops, totally romantic

In the preface of The Rifles Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing. Barnabas PiryuaqWell, in those high latitudes we found such quantitie...

William T. Vollmann

In the preface of The Rifles Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing. Barnabas PiryuaqWell, in those high latitudes we found such quantitie...

William T. Vollmann

Tags: environment, violence, slaughter, native americans, hunters

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

Chris Bohjalian

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

Chris Bohjalian

Tags: walt disney, florence, tuscan

I want you to be able to me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

Iris Murdoch

I want you to be able to me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

Iris Murdoch

Tags: love, self, identity, seen, iris murdoch, henry and cato, the beloved

He draws asparagus and cabbages, but he's obsessed with artichokes. He draws them more than any other vegetable. Why artichokes?George drained his glass. The artichoke is a sexy beast. Thorns to cut y...

Allegra Goodman

He draws asparagus and cabbages, but he's obsessed with artichokes. He draws them more than any other vegetable. Why artichokes?George drained his glass. The artichoke is a sexy beast. Thorns to cut y...

Allegra Goodman

Tags: jess and george, tom mcclintock

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. I thought I’d die for wanting you.

Teresa Medeiros

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. I thought I’d die for wanting you.

Teresa Medeiros

Tags: romance, prudence, velvet, sebastian, teresa medeiros

Dr. Louis Jolyon Jolly West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2, 1999. Dr. West served in the U.S. Army during World War II and received his M.D. from the Univ...

Colin A. Ross

Dr. Louis Jolyon Jolly West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2, 1999. Dr. West served in the U.S. Army during World War II and received his M.D. from the Univ...

Colin A. Ross

Tags: denial, lies, ethics, child abuse, misinformation, government abuse, multiple personality disorder, ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, false memory syndrome foundation

Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way...

Patricia Highsmith

Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way...

Patricia Highsmith

Tags: romantic, ending, soul mates, happy ending, declaration of love, patricia highsmith, the price of salt

Be just before you are generous.

James Joyce

Be just before you are generous.

James Joyce

Tags: justice, just, generous, ireland, ulysses, stephen, james joyce

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Ernest Hemingway

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Ernest Hemingway

Tags: obligation, river, release, catharsis

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.

Tim O'Brien

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.

Tim O'Brien

Tags: vietnam war, the things they carried, tim o brien

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

Mondo Frazier

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

Mondo Frazier

Tags: communism, conspiracy theories, cia, big oil, stanley ann dunham

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn...

Rebecca McNutt

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn...

Rebecca McNutt

Tags: car, music, memory, growing up, snow, wind, childhood, adult, kid, businessman

He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Margaret Atwood

He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Margaret Atwood

Tags: cleverness, margaret atwood

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Joe Biden

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Joe Biden

Tags: everybody, stutter, used

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Bill Walton

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Bill Walton

Tags: good, you, beard

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

Michael Hayden

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

Michael Hayden

Tags: air, force, air force

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

Louis Theroux

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

Louis Theroux

Tags: men, time, anxious

What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Tags: us, belongs, becomes
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