“Whoa, don't assume, dude," Marco said. "My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me--”
― Peter Lerangis, quote from Lost in Babylon
“A problem that seems unsolvable always looks different in the light of a new day.”
― Peter Lerangis, quote from Lost in Babylon
“To quote Alfred Einstein: ‘a follower tells, but a leader shows.”
― Peter Lerangis, quote from Lost in Babylon
“We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto,”
― Peter Lerangis, quote from Lost in Babylon
Peter Lerangis
Born place: in Brooklyn, New York , The United States
Born date January 1, 1955
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“… Кучето ми бе успяло да се върне, бяха му простреляли дробовете, но донесе покупките, успях и да го погаля, успях да му дам и бучка захар за похвала и награда, но то не я взе, сложи глава в скута ми и така бавно гаснеше, зад мен скланяше над нас глава кончето, поемаше с ноздри миризмата на кучето, дойде и козата, и котката, която спеше заедно с кучето, но мен така и не остави да я погаля, въпреки че, така отдалече, тя май ме обичаше най-много, когато й говорех, лягаше по гръб, гънеше се и се извиваше, и отправяше към мен лапички и погледи, все едно че я милвах под гушката или по кожухчето й, но протегнех ли към нея ръка, всеки път силата на плахостта я изстрелваше далеч от досега на пръстите ми… дойде котката и се сгуши, както бе свикнала, в козината на овчарката, аз протегнах към нея длан, но тя се беше загледала в гаснещите очи на кучето, и аз я погалих, тя ме изгледа, давайки ми да разбера, че за нея това е отвратително и че го е преодоляла само заради смъртта на приятеля си, затова предпочете да затвори очи и да пъхне глава в козината на кучето, за да не гледа това, от което изпитваше ужас и за което инак копнееше.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
“But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...”
― Anthony Hope, quote from The Prisoner of Zenda
“The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS”
― Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory in and of itself, as a "work." Its ambition is to make others believe that it was not made but rather simply arose, burst forth from Jupiter's head like Pallas Athena fully adorned in enchased armor. But that is only a pretense. No work has ever come into being that way. It is indeed work, artistic labor for the purpose of illusion-and now the question arises whether, given the current state of our consciousness, our comprehension, and our sense of truth, the game is still permissible, still intellectually possible, can still be taken seriously; whether the work as such, as a self-sufficient and harmonically self-contained structure, still stands in a legitimate relation to our problematical social condition, with its total insecurity and lack of harmony; whether all illusion, even the most beautiful, and especially the most beautiful, has not become a lie today.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Doctor Faustus
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