“Kabul is… a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Marriage is rarely bliss
But, surely it would be worse
As particles to pelt
At thousands of miles per sec
About a universe
In which a lover's kiss
Would either not be felt
Or break the loved one's neck.”
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics (1961), lines 9–16
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“All I want
Is one break
Which is not
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The Ginger Man (1955; New York: Delacorte Press, 1973) p. 319.
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"Sex in Education", p. 119-120
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