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“Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.”

People Hours Pay Activity Opposites Sells Merchandise

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.”

People Long Together House Hours Rooms Half Opposites

Book:Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

Source: Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

“I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.”

Way Sometimes Faces Hours Sitting Opposites Woods London Symbols Find Me Icons Leading Me Sketching

Author:Noma Bar

“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.”

Men Ends Today Heaven Hours Listening Activity Opposites Dear Size Accepted Noise Heresy Monstrous Bluster

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.”

Want Romance Young Hours Opposites Apartment Domestic Life

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.”

Long Play Wanted Night Hours Written Middle New York Position Married Long Time Opposites Evening Spares Middle Of The Night Daytime Spare Time Paddy

Author:Gena Rowlands

“In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.”

Ifs Feelings Sides Hours Dark White Cat Opposites Snow Desert Sheets Fabulous Moonlight Otherness Snow White Stargirl

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”

People Feels Persons Two Light Hours Rooms Cities Millions Crazy Opposites Miles Paris Excitement Extras Headings Rushing Every Second Demoralizing

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”

Ifs Men Years Said Done Hands Wanted Waiting Hours Behinds Known Five Circumstances Late Opposites Constant Five Years Too Late Steel Caution Hammers Realised Boyhood Good Woman Hammered Behind My Back

Book:Eona

Source: Eona

“Now I’m just standing here on the conveyor. Along for the ride. I reach the end, turn around, and go back the other way. The world has been distilled. Being dead is easy. After a few hours of this, I notice a female on the opposite conveyor. She doesn’t lurch or groan like most of us. Her head just lolls from side to side. I like that about her. That she doesn’t lurch or groan. I catch her eye and stare at her.”

World Way Has Beens Ends Eye Turns Easy Sides Hours Female Standing Opposites Staring Her Eyes Along For The Ride

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.”

Source: An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford