#main

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#borders #color #fatal #local #often

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. ↗

— Tom Allen

#frenzied #maine #rest #time #winter

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#consequence #continues #day #high #remain

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. ↗

— John Russell

#honour #longer #maintained #peace

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. ↗

— Bill Haley

#easy #just #main #main thing #music

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive,” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does. ↗

— Jeff Phillips

#authors #books #conspiracy #dubai #dystopia

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#home #long #me #remain #restless

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount. ↗

— Sean Booth

#actual #amount #approximations #deal #digital

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. ↗

— William Labov

#america #both #changes #communities #completing

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis