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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. Tom Holt
Time Day Tea Back UK Sunny Drink Perfect Never Had Hot Because Caught Really Last Last Time
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. Tom Perrotta
Love Great School Beauty Lost Great Gatsby High High School About Hypnotized Read Lost Love Moved Story Sentences
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. Toni Morrison
Time Book Took No Time Written Badly Periods Read Insulting Reviewer Reviews Short Short Periods Really Painful Deeply
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. Toni Morrison
Education People Black Nothing City Economy Concern Policy Does Any Social Planning Social Policy Consequence
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. Truman Capote
God Believe Something Know Witchcraft Makes Least End Want Us
My life is short. I can't listen to banality. V. S. Naipaul
Life Life Is Short My Life Banality Listen Short
Africa has no future. V. S. Naipaul
Future No Future Africa
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. V. S. Naipaul
Comedy Writes Hysteria Always Moment Deepest
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. V. S. Naipaul
World Men Become Nothing Allow Place Themselves Who
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. V. S. Naipaul
Fate Will India Indian Am Square Square Miles Miles England English Chained
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul
Simple Society Philistine Complex Seem Colonial Knows May Anyone Who
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. V. S. Naipaul
World Young Entered Small Left Up Quite Grew Bigger Place
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. Vikas Swarup
Education Wisdom Knowledge Sense Someone Had He Because Does Educated Just Common Just Because Formal Formal Education Common Sense Mean Elite Preserve
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. Vladimir Nabokov
Walk Hoot Hallelujah Short
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov
Airplane Stay Only Like Motion Up While Aphorism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov
Music Oppression Simple Stupidity Crime Cruelty Soft
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. Vladimir Nabokov
Life Enjoy Life Too Much Enjoy Imagination Too Immature Immortal Delight Supreme Limited Order Much Should
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it. W. P. Kinsella
You Reading Paragraph Find See About Something Finish Thrills Liked Read Line Again Enjoyment
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time. W. P. Kinsella
Time Looking Every Every Time Something Between Make Making Up Choice
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. Wallace Stegner
Teacher People Matter Ways Besides Sort His Subject Subject Matter Just
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then. Walter Kirn
Love Me World Books Collections Memorable Small Delights Facts Like Reference Tasty Candy Quotations Them Then Popcorn Now Now And Then
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing. Walter Kirn
Alone Nothing Environment Performing Make Up Cozy Manipulating Warm
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere. Walter Kirn
Life Government Game Business Science People Personal Life Everywhere Some Taken Advantage Make Personal Being Whether Realize Who Extent
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize. Walter Kirn
Power Gifted Determined More More Power Come Learn Genuine Than Deceive Far Realize
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. Walter Kirn
Life Worth Living Worth Living Striving Uncertainty Attempting Make Does Quite Gambling
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. Walter Kirn
Construction First Accident Out Followed Ritual Self Step Toward New Names Most Anonymous Redemption First Step Self-Help New One American Use Groups
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