Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.
London's like a forest. . . we shall be lost in it.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.
I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.
When I think of Britain, I don't think of these lofty ideals which once held sway like the stoic upper lip. I think of girls on a Saturday night outside kebab shops stabbing each other with stiletto heels or guys smashing glasses into someone's face. I think of shows like Big Brother which celebrate people's discomfort and anguish or kids committing these terrifying happy slapping acts of brutality to each other at the drop of a hat.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.