“He dropped his pants and went at it looking like Winnie-the-Pooh in his red polo shirt.”
“The Summer of Jake and Roxie – it was the best summer of my life.”
“You know you know you have a great friend when you can go months or even years without speaking and as soon as you see each other again it's like no time has passed at all?”
“Nobody wants to sit in a theatre and watch petty arguing and boring sex scenes (ahem, Jason Segal and Emily Blunt).”
“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen keyboard.”
“I was sitting on the toilet when he told me he wanted a divorce.”
“I do have a Blackberry, isn't that enough?”
“Mission: Back in the New York Groove had begun!”
“Maybe drinking five or six ales before getting into a massive brawl hadn't been the wisest choice.”
“The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.”
“I understand now that history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.”
“Virginia, a state with one of the highest concentrations of scientific talent in the world, led the nation in denying education to its youth.”
“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”
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