Saira Viola · 128 pages
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“Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal scraping his left cheek and of course two "wag" slags in tow trussed up like French Poodles with "Bratz babe" stares and Gucci Handbags”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“In Clarendon County for the school year 1949-50, they spent $179 per white child in the public schools; for each black child, they spent $43.”
― Richard Kluger, quote from Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
“It’s the Thanksgiving rule. That’s another life tip.” “Explain,” I said. “Oh, Thanksgiving is this massive meal that usually takes someone about three days to prepare, and then everyone sits down and eats it in about fifteen minutes. The trick is to learn to take your time with Thanksgiving. You have to get everyone to promise that they won’t get up for anything for at least an hour. Maybe two.”
― Joseph Monninger, quote from Eternal on the Water
“If you have not lost your self-control, and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”
― Hal Duncan, quote from Vellum
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.”
― quote from Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
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