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As we live in an insane world major, maybe it's time we gave insane solutions a chance.

Liberty Valance is a cancer on this fair town. He's the cancer and I'm the, uh...what cures cancer?

Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?

Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding to know thy misery; for all our wit and reading brings us to a truer sense of sorrow.

There's but three furies found in spacious hell, But in a great man's breast three thousand dwell

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.

Is it sinless? It is not worth while tocontend for a term It is "salvation from sin.

still he found himself more and more attached to the almost fairy form before him.

But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

No, sir," Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

He continued, "I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I'm grateful that you volunteered to give it.

he said no more and hoped that his silence was less compromising than were his explanations.

writes within it, is erudite, stately, illuminating. The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying

Imagine Love Story retold by a theatre group for the dramatically challenged.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

There were some cigarettes still in the case. I lit one, and started to get into the state of mind where, though everything was still undeniably queer, I could no longer understand why I had been quite so near panic. It

Triffids were at large...I began to loathe them now from more than their carrion-eating habits - they, more than anything else, seemed able to profit and flourish on our disaster...

Yes, Lance?" "I would like permission to kiss you." I walked up close to him. I looked into those big blue eyes. "Permission granted!

when justice is against the law, only outlaws can effect justice.