Speak Strine
Never use two syllables when one will do; never use three syllables when two will do; never use four syllables.
Bon mots
Mindquake
We need a Richter scale for major personal events that rattle our core, shake our life, leave fissures in our psyche. Sometimes we can put books back on our mental shelves, replace broken windows, rebuild fallen walls. But sometimes the mind is left all out of joint forever.
Card Sharp
I think I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could, but at times it was tempting to go for misere
Any time between…
If you could save all the hours you spend in your life waiting for tradesmen to arrive you could live for an extra year.
Travel guide
A tourist leaves a comfortable room at home, travels for hours, days, uncomfortably by plane, train, bus, car, all clothes stored in suitcase, trying to avoid being robbed or mugged, in order to reach another comfortable room in a place where they don’t speak your language.
Ageless
My old school classmates are all turning seventy five this year. Not me, I’m turning seventy four and I feel oddly pleased about this, like setting a clock an hour forward and so gaining time. And I need to gain all I can.
Put it in your album
You take photos to remind yourself of good times. But you can’t bear to look at them again because they remind you of good times.
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