For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Sophie Kinsella About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Mark Twain, quote from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.” She had exactly the German way whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die.
I was so impressed with this, that sometimes when she began to empty one of these sentences on me I unconsciously took the very attitude of reverence, and stood uncovered and if words had been water, I had been drowned, sure. “I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely.
His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. He felt bad.' Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police.
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. His life is full of things he could happily do without. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. Kingsley Amis (Penguin Essentials) Mass Market Paperback.
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