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Opinions are like assholes everyone's got one, but some stink worse than others!

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

You don't approve of Braddon?" I asked, readying myself to give him a stern lecture on the merits of her work. Not everything, after all, must be an exercise in the intellectual. One does require entertainment on occasion.

Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare's famous speech.

An interesting theory. But she wasn't in Yorkshire.

Name it after that blind monk—what was his name?" "Dom Pérignon, who said drinking champagne is like tasting the stars.

More are a certainty. I'm in my element here. You can trust me to know when a man will be back in contact.

Perhaps it was a lost opportunity. There's always a special thrill to the forbidden, or so they say.

Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them.

the Rey family grave at the

Je le sais désormais, en tant que lecteur, il faut faire confiance à l'auteur, au poète. Ils savent comment s'y prendre pour nous extirper de notre vie ordinaire et nous envoyer tanguer dans un autre monde dont nous n'avions même pas soupçonné l'existence. C'est ce que font les auteurs de talent. C'est ce que me fit M. Baudelaire.

Did she not have it all, the beauty, the brains, the breeding, the brilliant marriage? Yet I felt a tangible sadness lurking within…

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.

You also have to work with the love you are given, with all of the complications clanging behind it like tin cans to a bridal sedan.

You don't want no woman that brandished a firearm, son.

Only an Atlanta girl could be so classy while doing something so hood. It was love-logic,

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Mr. Lincoln too much, though I confess to despising him. He said that America will never be conquered from without but by the Vandals within. I fear he is only too right.

Las deidades amenazadoras de los jardines no representaban seres reales, sino más bien la emanación de esos seres.

The Coffeehouse Investor by Bill Shultheis (Kirkland, WA: Palouse Press, 2005). A little book with a big message: How to invest simply and successfully.

When emotions run high, logic flies out the window, and performance usually follows.

And Ill look back and regret how I ignored when they said, Run as fast as you can.

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.