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Later, after Rule became famous, she stopped writing those kind of books and started writing about a different kind of true-crime case. She started writing about real-life gothic soap operas, dream-come-true husbands who turn out to have a dark past and crap. I don't have any interest in those crimes or those books, which I think are written for women, and I haven't been able to read anything she's written in 25 years, although I keep trying.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.

What bothers him isn't that he's not beloved. "It bothers me," Barry says, "that I'm not even liked.

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Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination. -Calvin

Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means? Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a graphic novel, but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!

Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?

Yet the one I think of most often… was written in the copy of Catcher in the Rye… "Pardon the egg salad, but I'm in love.

I was learning that to be careful in small things made it much easier to handle the larger temptations as they came.

Probably, your first reaction is but don't do that, and I agree. However, such code does get written, so it is worth knowing how it is implemented.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretence and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.

128] Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.

For after all, what is man in creation? Is he not a mere cipher compared with the infinite, a whole compared to the nothing, a mean between zero & all, infinitely remote from understanding of either extreme? Who can follow these astonishing processes? The Author of these wonders understands them, but no one else can.

A good portrait can only be made by reconciling all our contradictory features, and it is not enough to follow through a series of mutually compatible qualities without reconciling their opposites; to understand an author's meaning all contradictory passages must be reconciled.