When people listen they make a listening noise.
When shaving, thinks Jacob, a man rereads his truest memoir.
When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end.
When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want rows, we want a quiet life. We feel inadequate because we don’t protest and argue...
When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,
When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost
When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make...
Where there’s bluster, thinks Luisa, there’s duplicity
While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myt...
While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the...
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
Who wins, you or the sony? The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve? So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
Whoever opined Money can't buy you happiness obviously had far too much of the stuff.
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
Why do things at all? What is it that stops the world simply . . . seizing up?. . . . Do you know?. . . . I don't know the answer, no. Sometimes I think it's the only question, and that all the other...
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for th...
Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get...
Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land & its riches? Wolves don’t sit in their caves, concocting crapulous theories of race to justi...
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