"[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Notes From The Midnight Driver”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.
“Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.”
“I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.”
“To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.”
“Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.”
“When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.”
“Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.187
“At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.”

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