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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world, West, for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#jhumpa-lahiri #imagination

Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70)


Michael Benanav


#bloodstream #body-tissues #body-weight #camels #death

She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once." I shrugged, "fine. I said'. . . just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.


Michael Siemsen


#father-humphrey #group-talk #lol #morgan #morgan-mother

She closed Dan's door and walked down the hall to her room. He makes a good boyfriend, she repeated to herself. What the hell was that suppose to mean? She didn't just want a good boyfriend. She wanted that thing Gustav Klimt had captured so perfectly in The Kiss. That radiant, electric, hold-me-tight-so-I don't-fall-from-up-here-in-the-sky feeling of being in love. Well, don't we all, sweetie?


Cecily von Ziegesar


#love

I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own.


Graeme Simsion


#humphrey-bogart #ingrid-bergman #love #unrequited-love #love

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.


Honor Blackman


#been #couples #door #grand #hotels

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.


Annie Dillard


#bible #dedicated #exhort #i #life

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.


Dennis Eckersley


#could #game #got #had #hump

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.


Michael Caine


#admire #being #bogart #dead #french

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#burden #camel #free #freeing #him






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