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  • The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not.

    Morning   Two   Tea  
    Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.
  • Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

    Men   Victory   Despair  
    The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)
  • All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.81, Penguin
  • I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.

    Museums   Profound   Bird  
    May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”
  • No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

    Victory   Battle   Fool  
    "The Sound and the Fury". Third International Edition,
  • Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

    Air   White   Space  
  • Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

    Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge
  • Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

    Funny   Flying   Bricks  
    "Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.
  • the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

    Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”
  • ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

    Men   Giving   Victory  
    The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)
  • Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

    Dying   Finals   Rich  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics
  • The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

    Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge
  • In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

    1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.
  • Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

    Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.514, Courier Corporation
  • If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

    Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor
  • The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

    Sleep   Past   Men  
    Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
  • I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.

    Butterfly   Names   Brave  
    Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
  • Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

  • Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

    Pain   Mean   Wings  
  • Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

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