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«Perhaps there is a sadist in me which delights in swimming against the gray onrush of commuters; of boarding an empty train in a teeming station-one of those coaches with the special fusty smell of aging upholstery.»
Author: Alan Franks
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«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.»
Author: Cliff Fadiman
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annual, arithmetic, commuter, commuters, consents, consultation, rings, timetable, timetables, tumble
«Commuter trains are packed with voyeurs of a similar bent.»
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