“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.” MenKindStoriesHandsSpiritReadingGriefPaperPagesTwentiesI RealizedTestimonyForeheadsFourteenLukeGazingCharismaticHand Holding Author:Blake Butler
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongWould BeForgetFourPaperNewsTwentiesDecadesDisappointedPapersDroppingFinishingBad NewsExpectancyLife ExpectancyConvocation Author:Adrian Tan
“At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.” AgeWeekBalancePaperSixTwentiesDollarsAverageProfitCustomersNineIncomeThirtyCentsSixtyRoutesPapers Book:Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.” ThinkingFeelsWritingHas BeensBookMatterFeltEffortFiveHonestTheoryPaperPagesTwentiesImpressedPapersTwenty FiveAnalyzingPhdsDropouts Author:Mary J. Miller
“Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.” ThinkingShouldYearsWarGovernmentSecretKnownLeaderDemocracyFiveMaterialsPaperMajorsShould HaveTwentiesDeeperPlanningFive YearsEnterpriseInternalsVietnamPapersVietnam WarTwenty FivePentagonKept SecretsShould Have Known Author:Noam Chomsky
“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.” IfsThinkingYearsMadeBookRunningStuffScenePaperTwentiesTablesTeaBrownPocketsPotPoolPapersThink Of YouSpillsByronI Think Of You Author:Virginia Woolf
“For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?” BookStoriesBodyRunningKidsReadingNextVoiceWalksVisionSawsSkyMinutesPeriodsScenePaperLettersSickTwentiesStealingRememberedGapsThievesBeatenGlimpseMechanicMaxBasementsStrandedLieselWhistler Author:Markus Zusak
“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.” MenTwoWatchesPaperBallsPaidTwentiesWoodsSoccerKicksInkViolinSoccer PlayerTwenty TwoSoccer FootballMotivational SoccerSoccer Is My LifeSoccer Ball Author:J. B. Priestley
“[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsHumansHas BeensSometimesDiesUnderstandingCan DoHuman BeingsResultsDealsAttentionCasesEffectsExampleInvolvedPaperResearchTwentiesInteractionFifteenPapersSubjectiveDishonestyThresholdWishful ThinkingLack Of Understanding Author:Irving Langmuir