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Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Bryan was now paid by Merrick to stand on a platform of another kind, erected over the water, and speak not of the gold standard but of the Gold Coast.

Let me hasten to point out that Indonesian is the easiest language in the world-no hedging, no "almost," no "among the easiest." In my experience, Indonesian is the easiest. The grammar is minimal, regular, and simple.

in contrast to the approach in many other nations, it is unusual in the United States to find any comprehensive privacy laws." Even when privacy laws are on the books, those laws almost universally exempt law enforcement.

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.

The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

A noise came from the upstairs hall; I heard the bookshelves fall. A ghost was reading poetry to entertain us all.

Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'" Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero !

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

You know how that goes, G. William," Jazz said lightly. "If you outlaw police scanners, only outlaws will have police scanners.

To fool people, you have to work with their prejudices instead of against them.

symbolism is bullshit. Because my sister's room is not preserved, but no one has moved on. We're all still stuck in place.

It so happens that I am in agreement with the objectives of the Supreme Court as stated in the Brown decision.

The waste of self and money amused his followers.

The lights began to dim; Cosima reached back for my hand. Darkness always prompts her affection.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

At night I drank and my hostility came roaring out if its cave like a jet-assisted banshee.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.