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Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.
Jack London • The People of the Abyss
A donkey of a dog.
Mick Jackson • The Underground Man
There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard and Carne knew all of them.
Raymond Chandler • The Long Good-bye (Philip Marlowe Series Book 6)
He had been reading W. H. Hudson. That sounds like an innocent occupation, but Cohn had read and reread “The Purple Land.” “The Purple Land” is a very sinister book if read too late in life. It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described. Fo
... See moreErnest Hemingway • The Sun Also Rises
I remember, among other things, his speaking of a captain whom I had known by report, who never handed a thing to a sailor, but put it on deck and kicked it to him; and of another, who was of the best connections in Boston, who absolutely murdered a lad from Boston that went out with him before the mast to Sumatra, by keeping him hard at work while
... See moreRichard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
Leaving the Harbour of Regret
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country—to catch perch with shiners. It is good bait sometimes, I allow. With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s g
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
