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“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”

“Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.”

Use Together Language Sound Wife Stranger Code Girlfriend Abusers Alliteration

Author:Ben Gibbard

“Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail”

Sound Dark Son Kings Wave Stranger Golden Rhythm Cadence Oar

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.”

Should Writing Purpose Strong Sound Attention Poet Draws Defeat Stranger Impression Familiar Occasions Delightful Transmit Coarse

Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Thinking Lying Sound Stranger Deception Telephones Amazement

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.”

Way Sound Terrible Stranger Couches

Author:Sam Altman

“Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.”

Men Giving Mind May Body Enjoy Sound Pleasure Conditions Industry Labor Foundation Instruments Very Good Stranger Improvement Vehicle Indispensable Possessing Relish Sound Mind Sound Body

Author:Robert Blair