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They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such rampant wildness. ↗


— Lisa Kleypas


#lisa-kleypas #love-come-to-me #lucy #love

He whispered her name as if it were a love-word, and his mouth drifted through the tear tracks on her face. They would not yield their secrets. Oh, but love . . . Love was unvoiced and undenied. As they fitted together into one being, each movement was a new discovery, each second an eternity of emotion. Let it last, her heart beseeched the darkness silently. Let it last forever. ↗


— Lisa Kleypas


#lisa-kleypas #love-come-to-me #lucy #love

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. ↗


— John Edward Redmond


#characterized #country #english #fifty #fraud

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial ↗


— Susie Bright


#los-angeles #radicalism #revolution #death

Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, "Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens and the earth). They left all their mighty empire and pomp and show behind them and but for a handful of dust no trace remains of their existence. Nobody knows about them or about what happened to them after their death -- what insects ate them up and how they fared with God. Thus alone shall one realize that this world is a transitory place and man has nothing to gain from it; it is a puppet show. Thus alone shall one find peace. ↗


— Mir Amman


#death

That, too, was in the air itself -- a whisper of apology when the smell of the soil carried. There should be pumpkins in the fields, or sunflowers, or the peppers you saw up north. Instead, it was the smell of old earth that the breezes caught, sometimes a tinge of death. Too hard to forget. ↗


— Christian Crews


#short-story #death

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. ↗


— David Remnick


#capitalism #far #henry #more #russia

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. ↗


— Cecil Rhodes


#englishman #first #life #lottery #prize

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗


— James Reston


#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#press #men






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