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William Makepeace Thackeray

"Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!"

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

William Makepeace Thackeray

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“And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.”
“And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.”

Source : "Bill Kristol's guide to falling upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.”
“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be wonâ€¦ but one we dare not lose.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin
“Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet theyâ€™re paying more in taxes.”
“I'm not really a horror movie fan.”
“My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.”

Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

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