He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous creature, the happily married coupe, adapting himself closely and lightly to the composite personality. A peevish dead woman...it's absurd...how much less humiliating for them both it would have been if she had taken a lover. Elizabeth Bowen
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
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Paul Graham
They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate...
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Shannon L. Alder
Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.
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Henry Mosquera
The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by “Participation Trophy” winning wimps!
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James Scott
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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Cory Doctorow
More Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen
A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
If they should only be ill, ' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he...
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which...
And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and...
