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He was as good as his worst performance; his worst performance was Gothic.

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One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human

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My fish dream is a sex dream.

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Sono una nube congelata attorno a un oggetto centrale, in forma di pera, duro e reale più di me stessa e che riluce di rosso entro il suo diafano involucro. Dentro c'è uno spazio, vasto quanto il cielo di notte e altrettanto buio e ricurvo, sebbene rosso-nero più che nero. Puntini di luce si espandono, scintillano, scoppiano e avvizziscono all'interno, innumeri come stelle. Ogni mese c'è una luna gigantesca, rotonda, pesante, un presagio. Transita, sosta, prosegue, scompare alla vista, e vedo lo scoramento di venirmi incontro come una carestia. Sentirsi così vuota, daccapo, daccapo. Ascolto il mio cuore, onda su onda, onde salate e rosse, che segnano il tempo.

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But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.

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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

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I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.

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Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing,

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it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change:

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Jem restrained me from further questions. He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn’t do to push him any. Jem

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In queste occasioni leggo velocemente, con voracità, saltando qualche parola e cercando di riempirmi la testa il più possibile prima di un nuovo, lungo periodo di astinenza. Se fossero un genere commestibile queste letture smorzerebbero l'ingordigia dell'affamato, se fossero sesso equivarrebbero a un veloce amplesso furtivo, in qualche vicolo.

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Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.

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Başına bela sarıp düşmeye başlayan birine dibe vardığını anlama şansı verilmez. Düşer, düşer, düşer, ama düştüğünü anlayamaz. Tüm düzen, hayatlarının şu veya bu döneminde çevrelerinin onlara veremediği şeyleri arayan insanlar için kurulmuştur. Veya çevrelerinin onlara sağlayamadığını sandıkları şeyleri arayan insanlar için. Onlar da, aramaktan vazgeçerler.

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By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or another, real or imaginary.

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They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,’ said Atticus, ‘but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’ When

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Μα μερικές φορές η Βίβλος στα χέρια ενός ανθρώπου είναι χειρότερη απ' ό,τι ένα μπουκάλι ουίσκι στα χέρια του ...να

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Per il Paradiso abbiamo bisogno di Te. L'Inferno ce lo possiamo fare da soli.

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I should like a thoroughly bad climate, he answered. I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms,

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وفي أغلب الأحيان، عندما يهدي إليّ أحدهم هدية، أشعر بالحزن بعد ذلك.

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We will know where we have gone - we will recollect what we have seen.

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