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“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”

Two Body Fall Dark Mystery Rivers Heavy Slips Crash Woe Monstrous Thighs Women's Bodies Swirls Supple Whirlpools

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.”

Ifs Thinking Certain Fall Girl Sides Black Streets Asking Ice Covered Slips Alright Lanes Certain Death Black Ice

Author:David Bowick

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

Suffering Turns Fall Wind Habit Balls Great Men Exception Strings Slips Rooted Lapses New Habits Winding Up

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.”

Life Is Fall Process Subjects Achievement Finished This Life Slips Precarious

Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

Soul Light Death Fall Memories Behinds Vision Forever Mountain Mercy Blind Enormous Height Slips Betray Glances Bleak Rendering Climbers

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.”

Fall Genius Climbs Carrie Slips Now And Then

Book:Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus

“I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.”

Ifs Giving Believe Ends Dream Fall House Alive Achieve Car Tvs Careful Selling Prize Slips American Dream Consumerism Consolation Overconsumption Consolation Prize Selling Yourself

Author:Bruce Springsteen