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When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous... ("A Wine of Wizardry")

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful.

constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman

He talked about the struggling economy, rising inflation, and declining American power abroad.

In the fall of 1968, I reported to Moody Air Force Base in Georgia for pilot training.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President

the great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.

We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.

A very troublesome species of property Racist-a$$ George Washington

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

the lugubrious grandeur that characterizes the places where blood flows

I re-read the books I love and I love the books I re-read, and each time it is the same enjoyment, whether I re-read twenty pages, three chapters, or the whole book: an enjoyment of complicity, of collusion, or more especially, and in addition, of having in the end found kin again.

Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission

Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate.

Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead! You display an unseemly joy, he remarked. I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.

They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!' 'Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.

The truth is that I told Lucius Kennet and Silas to kidnap you for me, but I thought they could do it without using any horrid stratagems! That was fair enough! There could be no possible objection, for how could I kidnap you myself?

With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.

I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?