European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences.
Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologi...
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
Fatalism’s a weak antidepressant, but there’s nothing stronger at Dr. Kumar’s.
Fear hardens caution, but boredom erodes it.
February's so gloomy in this part of the world, said Mrs. de Roo, don't you think? It's not so much a month as a twenty-eight day long Monday morning
Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless.
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it, goats'll heed your say-so, if you ain't, they'll jus' trample you muddy an' stand there scornin'.
God only knows how many previous owners it’s had, but it’s been washed so the stains aren’t sticky at least,
Grin and bear it! Remember your heritage! You’re a Japanese law-abiding straight! You grin and bear it until your Zimmer frame buckles and your drinking water is mercury oxide, and our whole country i...
He lights another match to see if it's a time worth getting up for: 4:05. No. An inbetween hour.
He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.
Hello, tiny life-form of star compost, did you know that your lizardly life, too, is billiarded this way and that by quantum scissors, papers and stones? That your particles exist in a time-froth of l...
Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
I can't make any promises... I became a scientist because...it's ike panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold. I- I don't know what I want to do...''Journalists work in torrents just as...
I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin' cross the Hole World ain't senseful neither but that's how it was...
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