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“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.”

Light Air Sweet Rain Empty Ghost Beast Chests Afternoon Ache Glamour Daylight Unfinished Puddles Carnivals Midway Sawdust Wheezing

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.”

People Men Lying Asks Waiting Old Man Elevators Wheezing

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.”

Art Actors Acting Emotional Discipline Absurd Unfortunate Detachment Abandonment Vogue Bursting Maniacs Spilling Vomiting Containment Wheezing

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.”

Eye Purpose Dark Heavy London Invisible Visible Divided Fog Lungs Choke Irritated Spectre Wheezing

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King.”

Thinking Way Years Stills Might Earth America Beautiful Nations White Kings Right Now Toilets Rebellious Vegas Passing Away Analogies Jumpsuits Wheezing

Author:John Oliver