"Has he come armed, then?â€ she asked anxiously. â€œHas he brought a pistol or a sword?â€ Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. â€œOh, no, Mam!â€ he said. â€œItâ€™s worse. Heâ€™s brought a lawyer!"

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Dark Quotes #Hair Quotes #Wind Quotes

“If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.”
“For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.”
“When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.”
“I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.”
“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”

Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
“God is sufficient in all ages for His church.”
“Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.”
“Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.”

Source : "The Coming War Over Genes: Darwin's Enemies on the Left". www.unz.com. December 01, 1999.

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