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Shelf
25 October 2009 on 11:38 PM |
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It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog.
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Nicole
25 October 2009 on 8:23 PM |
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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Vero88
21 October 2009 on 8:56 PM |
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The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
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Nicole
21 October 2009 on 7:59 PM |
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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Nicole
21 October 2009 on 4:47 PM |
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I Wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended on what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concern’d in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they know the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and procedeed accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
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jeepster
20 October 2009 on 7:54 PM |
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My wife, June, who has always helped me on books like this, is not my best friend, but she is my severest critic.
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jeepster
20 October 2009 on 2:17 AM |
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He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun, Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher – the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.
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Chielos
16 October 2009 on 10:14 PM |
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From beginning to end, we root for greatness.
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Reims
15 October 2009 on 10:40 PM |
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Lord Francis Powerscourt looked carefully at the number at the top of the page
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Ruud62
15 October 2009 on 9:40 PM |
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The last camel collapsed at noon
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