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In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins." And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a word, lazy. Here in Tokyo they're not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the Peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and I don't mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like "We, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god.


David Sedaris


#cashiers #europe #euros #hospitality #japan

Language is a virus from outer space


William S. Burroughs


#language

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.


Patricia A. McKillip


#language #meaning #words #language

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#language #patriarchy #language

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.


Paulo Coelho


#language

Know what you are talking about.


John Paul II


#language #language

Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.


Paulo Coelho


#change

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?


George R.R. Martin


#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #curiosity #george-r-r-martin #tyrion-lannister #wall

Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]


J.R. Ward


#j-r-ward #jane #lover-unbound #vishous #help

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.


John Green


#blindness #exageration #stars






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