Nemesis can seldom forge a sword for herself out of our consciences—out of the suffering we feel in the suffering we may have caused: there is rarely metal enough there to make an effective weapon.
Adam Bede, B4C3 #eliotreadalong
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Naturally, like every writer I'm tempted to use succulent terms: I know splendid adjectives, meaty nouns, and verbs so slender that they travel sharp through the air about to go into action, since words are actions, don't you agree?
CLARICE LISPECTOR #SundaySentence
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One day she said to her father, "Let me tell you what is on my mind."...
I want you to marry me to Shahriyar, so that I may liberate my people or die trying."
#ArabianNights23 #AnnotatedArabianNights
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"You must come down," she said, "and if you don't, I shall wake the jinni and he will kill you."
#ArabianNights23 #AnnotatedArabianNights
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Shahzaman described what he had seen, and the disaster lurking in his brother's home..,and told him the story from start to end (no need to repeat it now).
"The Story of King Shahriyar and His Vizier's Daughter, Shahrazad"
#ArabianNights23 #AnnotatedArabianNights [Late start!]
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As long as they were silent they did not look at each other, and a foreboding came across Adam that if they began to speak as though they remembered the past—if they looked at each other with full recognition—they must take fire again.
Adam Bede, B4C2 #eliotreadalong
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'She is the Surprise,' said Stephen, and he whispered, 'The joyful Surprise, God and Mary be with her.'
10. The Far Side of the World C10 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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Had a great “surprise” on our last day in San Diego! Found out HMS Surprise was back at the Maritime Museum! Had a wonderful tour of the ship from Master and Commander, along with several others. #aubreymaturinreadalong
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The words of hatred and contempt—the first he had ever heard in his life—seemed like scorching missiles that were making ineffaceable scars on him.
Adam Bede, B4C1 #eliotreadalong
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'It did not occur to me that an officer would tell a direct lie.'
'Oh come, Jack, for all love! you are an officer and I have known you to lie times without number, like Ulysses.'
10. The Far Side of the World C10 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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“Why, the earthly paradise would soon be with us, if government, monarchical or republican, had but to give a man a commission to preserve him from lying – from pride, envy, sloth, gule, avarice, ire and incontinence.” Far Side of the World Ch 10 THE END #aubreymaturinreadalong
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"There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shoundna thing you civil enough."
Adam Bede, B3C5 #eliotreadalong
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I was and remained a pursuer of the Whale. I was a small ahab, with no capital up front. For I felt that as fast as I swam, the Whiteness outpaced my poor strokes and my inadequate boat: a portable typewriter and great white pages waiting to be covered with blood.
RAY BRADBURY
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Easily one of Bradbury's most underappreciated books (and my fave!) is Green Shadows, White Whale (1992), reflections on his experience in Ireland collaborating with John Huston on the director's Moby Dick project. Moving, tense, hilarious, not-to-be-missed! #RayBradbury #RDB
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“One part of the Bradbury story that may be less well known, however, is his Irish connection. This had its origins when in 1953 director John Huston recruited him to write the screenplay for his film of Moby Dick.” bit.ly/3HuK30K #RayBradbury #MobyDick #JohnHuston
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Arthur...saw her in heightened beauty, because he heard her beauty praised—for other men's opinion, you know, was like a native climate to Arthur's feelings: it was the air on which they thrived the best, and grew strong.
Adam Bede, B3C4 #eliotreadalong
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"It 'ud be nonsense for me to be saying, I don't at all deserve th' opinion you have of me; that 'ud be poor thanks to you, to say that you've know me all these years and yet haven't sense enough to find out a great deal o' the truth about me."
Adam Bede, B3C3 #eliotreadalong
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Dismal day on the treadmill. Deleted more than I ginned out. Information is the enemy of beauty, but we all start with buckets of boring background and hafta throw it down & slap it around till some sparkle bubbles up. Last week I pulled off 3 good days in a row. #Memoirs
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'It is extremely awkward talking to a man with hair all over his face; you cannot tell what he is thinking, what he really means, whether he is false or not. Sometimes people wear blue spectacles, and it is much the same.'
10. The Far Side of the World C10 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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"Yes, there's folks as find a pleasure in undervallying what they know but little about," said Mr. Craig.
Adam Bede, B3C2 #eliotreadalong
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but on the other hand he did not wish to appear casual, as though the surrender of a post-captain were of no great inmportance.
10. The Far Sideo of the World, C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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He did not wish to appear too eager, strutting about on his quarterdeck throughout his prisoner's approach – it was a damned unpleasant thing having to surrender in any case, as he knew from experience, without having people crow over you –
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"You can't hinder some of them from getting too much towards evening, but drunkenness and darkness go better together than drunkenness and daylight."
Adam Bede, B3C1 #eliotreadalong
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Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede #SundaySentence #eliotreadalong
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Time is the final currency. What do you do with the time you have left?
DAVID CROSBY
...many of the watch below passed a small private telescope from hand to hand, looking for women on the shore: in spite of their shocking experience with the pahi they still looked for women, looked very eagerly indeed.
10. The Far Sideo of the World, C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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It was almost as if three rough animals were making humble efforts to learn how they might become human. And it touched the tenderest fibre in Bartle Massey's nature....
Adam Bede, B2C5 #eliotreadalong
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Stephen looked like a dead man: his temples were sunk, his nostrils pinched, his lips were colourless: he was lying on his back and his grey closed utterly motionless face had an inhuman lack of expression.
10. The Far Side of the World, C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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Mrs. Poyser was not to be caught in the weakness of smiling at a compliment, but a quiet complacency over-spread her face like a stealing sunbeam.
Adam Bede, B2C4 #eliotreadalong
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I just saw the #ArabianNights23 group-read info and am interested. Is there a reading schedule or time parameters? Does anyone have the kindle edition of #TheAnnotatedArabianNights? If so, does it include the book illustrations? Thanks!
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'Yet even that's not quite right, neither. I know there is a dead horse in there somewhere, but I am afraid I'm brought by the lee this time, though I rather pride myself on proverbs, bringing them in aptly, you know, and to the point.'
10. TFSotW C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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'Only this morning I was thinking how right they were to say it was better to be a dead horse than a live lion.' He gazed out of the scuttle, obviously going over the words in his mind. 'No, I mean better to flog a dead horse than a live lion.'
'I quite agree.'
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We look at the one little woman's face we love as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.
Adam Bede, B2C3 #eliotreadalong
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On loss
Dylan at 24:
“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”
Dylan at 56:
“When you think that you lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more.”
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'There she was on the lough, chasing the other phalaropes and being chased by them, crying pleep, pleep, pleep and never doing a beak's turn by way of labour or toil. There was a fowl that knew how to live a life of her own, I believe.'
10. TFSotW C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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The "little uns" addressed were Marty and Tommy, boys of nine and seven, in little fustian tailed coats and knee-breeches, relieved by rosy cheeks and black eyes, looking as much like their father as a very small elephant is like a very large one.
Adam Bede, B2C2 #eliotreadalong
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Furthermore it was perfectly obvious that a rescued captain, just returned to his ship by a combination of extraordinary luck and extraordinary exertions, could not decently find fault with his ship's company.
10. The Far Side of the World, C9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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It is so very rarely that facts hit upon that nice medium required by our own enlightened opinions and refined taste!
Adam Bede, B2C1 #eliotreadalong
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I thought I would sail about
in my soul;
There is nothing surprising in this.
#MelvilleMonday
“Loomings” (page 1)
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Stephen, a Catholic, had already performed his action of grace; Jack's happy, thankful mind now did much the same, though in a less formal manner, revelling and delighting in what he had been given back.
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"My mother and I have a little discussion about you sometimes: she says, 'I'll never risk a single prophecy on Arthur until I see the woman he falls in love with.' She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides."
Adam Bede, B1C16 #eliotreadalong
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"Jack Aubrey lay in his cot, savouring his resurrection; this was Sunday morning and according to ancient naval custom the day’s life began half an hour earlier than usual..."
The Far Side of the World Chapter 9 #aubreymaturinreadalong
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[On being "beguiled" by physical beauty]
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.
Adam Bede, B1C15 #eliotreadalong
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