Peter... She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. Let’s not go there.That’s what people always say about places where they already are.
Peter was struck by the scar’s essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: trium...
Grainger looked exasperated. Why don’t you just come straight out and use the word ?Because the aliens here.
Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.
Hoy día, su vida se asemeja más bien a un periódico: sin sentido, al día y lleno de sucesos disparatados.
— Большинство истин довольно банальны на самом деле. Но мы усложняем их из чистого стеснения. Простые истины покрыты одеждой сложности. Единственный смысл лингвистической одежды в том, чтобы люди не у...
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
Reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude. Of
Todo arte nuevo, para ser auténtico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artística.
Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.
Reinhold Niebuhr,
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
Needs could not bully her.
A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of th...
So much for yesterday. Today, Sophie’s formal education must begin. Dressing the lamb before the kill, as Mrs Castaway once put it, when Sugar dared to ask what, exactly, education is.
Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.
The opulence of Bedford Square and the British Museum may be only a few hundred yards away, but New Oxford Street runs between there and here like a river too wide to swim, and you are on the wrong si...
She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining...
A child’s disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
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