This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In sensory experience I always experience myself and the world at the same time, not myself directly and the Other by inference, not myself before the Other, nor without the Other, nor the Other without myself.
World |
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Mother |
Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Men |
If you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi
Absurd |
All a child has to do is to learn to abandon ecstasy, to do without awe, to leave fear and trembling behind. Only then can he act with a certain oblivious self-confidence, when he has naturalized his world. We say naturalized but we mean unnaturalized, falsified, with the truth obscured, the despair of the human condition hidden
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
I know that the night is not the same as the day: that things are different, that is what one feels at night, during the day cannot explain it, because then it does not exist, and the lonely people, where their loneliness one to take effect, the night can be a time Horrors.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
Get it straight. Your boy you lose. Love you lose. Honor has been gone for a long time. Duty you do.
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
Death | Defiance | Excitement |
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. You kept from thinking and it was all marvelous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it.