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Madam, if I were Herod in the middle Of the massacre of the innocents, I'd pause Just to consider the confusion of your imagery.

He picked on his rags and his bones as love Picks upon hearts, he with an eye to profit And love with an eye to pain.

It really is Beyond the limit of respectable superstition To confuse my voice with a peacock's.

You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.

Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?

The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Yo, zombie guys, pay attention. When it's Simon says, that means you have to do what I say. Let's be more direct. The Slayer says die, like, forever.

Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.

I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter.

There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money.

she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.

have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

Though the idea was Hitler's, originating in a scribbled note

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him.

King Henry—have exchanged her son's inheritance for

It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter.

It's amazing that the city we live in allows "pets" that belong in a sideshow, but makes it illegal for me to have a switchblade.