“That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
“and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
“Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
“dug in, but he seemed to be feeling no”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
“Whether he’s still a threat to innocent doors remains to be seen. By”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
“I didn’t tell my parents what happened because they would’ve freaked and gone straight to Dusty Muleman, or maybe even the police, which was not how I wanted to handle it.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Flush
Carl Hiaasen
Born place: in Miami, Florida
Born date March 12, 1953
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“Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix? It was because of you. You’re my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.”
― Katherine Allred, quote from The Sweet Gum Tree
“Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.”
― Chaim Potok, quote from The Promise
“Grace Slaughter - the surname of her fifth husband, a manufacturer of pharmaceutical toners and "prophylactic" products, recently deceased due to a ruptured peritoneum - was sharply chauvinistic and would allow no more than two exceptions to her all-American views, exceptions with which her first spouse, Astolphe de Guéménolé-Longtgermain, no doubt had something to do: cooking had to be done by French nationals of male gender, laundry and ironing by British subjects of female gender (and absolutely not by Chinese). That allowed Henri Fresnel to be hired without having to hide his original citizenship, which is what had to be done by the director (Hungarian), the set designer (Russian), the choreographer (Lithuanian), the dancers (Italian, Greek, Egyptian), the scriptwriter (English), the librettist (Austrian), and the composer, a Finn of Bulgarian descent with a large dash of Romanian.”
― Georges Perec, quote from Life A User's Manual
“The men, her husband and sons, leave for the quarry at seven o'clock sharp and return at five. What do they imagine she does all day? It makes her shiver to think of it, how not one pair of eyes can see through the roof and walls of her house and regard her as she moves through her dreamlike days, bargaining from minute to minute with indolence, that tempter.”
― Carol Shields, quote from The Stone Diaries
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