quotes at random, no. 15

[fiefoe]

There is a often-performed routine in Chinese opera which depicts a sword fight in the dark. It’s a carefully choreographed dance where the fighters keep missing each other while trying to kill the other person. This is what traffic is like in Beijing.

__ Washington never waited. He said his cook would kill him.
__ Washington favored "Your High and Mightiness."
__ The "y'all come see me" kind of hospitality is an African tradition that they brought over.

__ filing experiences away before you even have them
__ (Children) uncannily double your experiences, like an overtone or an octave note.
__ So parents are constantly tacking back and forth between the far shore, a place of sublime light and Turneresque shadow, and the near, a plastic wasteland adorned with broken Happy Meal toys.

The government of Thailand reported the stone as being a large golden topaz so as not to irritate the citizens --

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