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When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.

"When You Are Engulfed in Flames" is a collection of essays by David Sedaris, known for his keen observations and humor. In this book, Sedaris explores various aspects of his life, sharing stories that range from the mundane to the deeply personal. His unique style blends wit with poignant reflections, making everyday experiences both entertaining and relatable.

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Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end? I shrugged. You see? He leaned back. He smiled. When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

The nun said, I can forgive the language. I'm not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother. Ya gotta know her, Holland said. If you knew her, you'd give her the finger, too.

by John Sandford

But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.

by David Mitchell

There's lying," says Mum, fishing out the envelope she wrote the directions on from her handbag, "which is wrong, and there's creating the right impression, which is necessary.

by David Mitchell

Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?'You have peace,' the old woman said, 'when you make it with yourself.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

by David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

by David Mitchell

But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

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