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I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not; But then you're mad to take offence That I don't give you what I have not got: Use your own common sense.

I charge you at the Judgement make it plain, My love of you was life and not a breath.

About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.

Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false ones. Tap the fragile shell of any beginning and you'll find another nested inside.

Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn't everybody?" She snapped her fingers. "The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I've decided I have to shoot you after all. It's the only way to preserve my sanity.

Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised?

Immigrant families aren't, he notes, "a threat to America's moral culture." Rather, "America is a threat to immigrant children's moral development.

It's a great opportunity for him, though I suspect he's in for a shock about how much people in L.A. would rather talk about films than make them.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

The last time Charles saw it, the crown was sitting atop his mother's coffin.

Russell looked as though he were in very dire need of a trip to the bathroom.

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White's strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other's domain.

Is it colour?' 'Oh yes.' 'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.

This was the moment you took your pleasure back to the shop and spent the refund on guilt.

No, you're right. And you said Jan was holding their passports? I'm starting to wonder whether a rock band's tour bus wouldn't be the perfect cover for trafficking girls around Europe.

It was sitting there under a gift-shop bust of Socrates, the inventor of mansplaining.

Speechwriters are fundamentally Calvinist: They become nervous if their principals exhibit free will and depart from the prepared text.

Ronald Reagan used to say that the nine scariest words in the English language were 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

arrived veiled, as compared to 639 the previous fall. Chirac ordered that the hundredth anniversary

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

Anarchism has quite simply refused to learn from its historic failures, preferring to rewrite them as successes.