Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny.”
Clifford D. Simak book Way Station
Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 32
Context: How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny. For the rifle range had been a senseless thing, as senseless as a billiard table or a game of cards — designed for one thing only, to please the keeper of the station. And yet the hours he'd spent there had shaped toward this hour and end, to this single instant on this restricted slope of ground.
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
“God Made You Like That” http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/andrew-sullivan-why-we-should-say-yes-to-drugs.html, New York magazine (25 May, 2018)
“Many of the old cases are strange and absurd : so also are some of the modern ones.”
John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge
Pillans v. Van Mierop (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1671.
Isabel Durant (1991) Australian actor and dancer
Source: Exclusive | Mako Mermaids | CAST Reunion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGRc7z7zeA (July 2, 2020)
“It is strange that many believe they cannot control themselves, but they can control others.”
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 21