“Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“there was such a lot of whispering that it sounded like a thousand leaves rustling at once!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“The three children had no chance to visit the”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“down to the foot of the tree to”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
Enid Blyton
Born place: in East Dulwich, South London, The United Kingdom
Born date August 11, 1897
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“If you burst a chokepod, and the gas doesn’t get me, your grandfather will. Come on.”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Grip of the Shadow Plague
“When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Zahir
“I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from Three Comrades
“A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can't be done. You can't go any faster than that. You can't through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“In time, the Navy would compile statistics showing that for a career Navy pilot, i.e., one who intended to keep flying for twenty years... there was a 23 percent probability that he would die in an aircraft accident. This did not even include combat deaths, since the military did not classify death in combat as accidental.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Right Stuff
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