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Letter "I" » in a moment
«To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
accompany, Black woman, Elevators, floor show, forty-ninth, guards, in a moment, ninth, off guard, pregnant, reception, receptions, reception room, Third World, uniformed
«We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.»
«What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.»
«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquired, ancestor, brilliant, distant, exalted, fidelities, fidelity, in a moment, merge, merging, proud of, ridiculously
«You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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beard, bearded, bearding, in a moment
«Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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amazed, furious, in a moment, loyal, neutral, neutrals, temperate
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