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“Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.”

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Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author known for his unique literary style and profound cultural insights. His works often explore issues of identity, family, and society, winning him widespread acclaim from readers. more

“Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.”

“Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.”

Shows Body Breaths Remains Ancient Smell Showing Off Gems Compact Cairo

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.”

Tree Flower Fruit Golden Bees Glowing

Book:The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

Source: The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

“Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.”

Men Done Use Running Flower Masters Fit Fairs Honey Bees Bruises Hives Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Book:The Works of George Herbert: Poems

Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems

“For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”

Order Teach Creatures Kingdoms Honey Bees Hives Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Author:William Shakespeare

“In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?”

Healing Nice Bees Dew Herbs

Book:An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Source: An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

“The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.”

Wings Setting Settings Wander Cups Bells Swings Bees Coats Lilies Furry

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.”

Knows Men Littles Long Dream Might Night Wonder Return Summer Evening Honey Bees Gloom Comrade Dolphins Combs Hives Turner Summer Nights Tennyson Little Bee

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?”

Reason Boxing

Author:Bob Dylan

“I don't think his hands could take the abuse.”

Thinking Hands Abuse Boxing

Author:Randall Cobb

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