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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

How long have you been with Raphael?" "You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman." "What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.

The Catholics are truly in many aspects the original Christian Wiccans or ChristoPagans!

Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that

Matt heard a dove calling from the roof of the hospital. No hope, it said. No hope. No hope.

He shuddered. "What a waste of perfectly good maraschino cherries. Why put them in anything but a Manhattan?

to your parole?" "Nothing. The guy I was with is a

She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.

It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a slut before but recognized the genus without difficulty as soon as I set eyes on this one.

Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like, you never saw such a fat man in your life.

more interesting than white mice—though I must frankly say, of all the mice I ever knew, Brenda was the most utterly dismal." "She was dull," I said, sycophantically. "When I go to London

Adorable as she was, Northey was by no means an easy proposition. She was now in love, for the first time (or so she said, but is it not always the first time, and for that matter, the last?) and complained about it with the squeaks and yelps of a thwarted puppy.

People have no memory about that sort of thing and, after all, there's nothing to forget except bad taste.

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

inside the entrance, along with his bow, otter skin quiver, and the case that held his rifle. She

Paul Cain is an early, influential figure in this genre, who is now quite hard to find even in used bookstores and libraries. His 1932 Fast One was a noir landmark; it

one of Marjorie's boats, they were inevitably

Her estate's lawyer. "Is he…?" "Undead? Oh, yes. I never do business with daywalkers. Too temporary.

He was joking, right? A village garden competition wasn't like the Olympics.

The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.

There is simply no way to square a belief system that vilifies collective action and venerates total market freedom with a problem that demands collective action on an unprecedented scale and a dramatic reining in of the market forces that created and are deepening the crisis.

destabilized climate is the cost of deregulated, global capitalism, its unintended, yet unavoidable consequence.39

the authors of the CIA manual, that effective torture was not sadism but science. "The precise pain in the precise place, in the precise amount" was his motto.

As many are coming to realize, the fetish for structurelessness, the rebellion against any kind of institutionalization, is not a luxury today's transformative movements can afford.