Hash, x. There is no definition for this word – nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black – witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.
Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.
Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the ‘poetess’.
The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth!
Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant.
In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.