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I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

How long had the Doc been crazy? I don't know. Quite some time, I guess. Don't worry. He was only a general practitioner.

Miranda found sunflowers very ugly, and yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.

He told me that the difference between him and other people was that other people would only think about kicking me in the shins whenever I used a long word, but he went ahead and took action.

He may have been told that a rakish grin works wonders. If so, he'd been getting bad advice.

Will you dare, I ask, to condemn the unfairness inherent in the judicial system which metes out one brand of justice for the rich and one for the poor?

Who else is there to marry?' she asked a friend; she at least had the great good fortune to be marrying for love.

guided towards the writings of a 1930s Danish-Norwegian author, Aksel Sandemose, for a better understanding of how best to 'integrate' into the workplace in Denmark.

Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is more blessed to give than to receive

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. 2The real miracle is the love that inspires them. 3In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

i go through life watching the english language being raped before me face. like miniver cheevy, i was born too late.

contenía todos los libros y tratados escritos sobre el tema de las grandes narices». (¡Frank! ¡Consígueme un Tristram Shandy!) No

Londres, por las cartas que escribí, ¡han colocado, en el emplazamiento de la librería, una placa de cobre con mi nombre! Sigo pensando que soy un escritora sin cultura ni demasiado talento, pero a pesar de todo ¡me han dedicado una placa en un muro de Londres.

Carmen, dear," I said, "I am not the kind of author who wants to be protected from her public. Any fan who phones might want to feed me, and I am totally available as a dinner guest. Just give out my address all over.

I seem to be living in a state of deep hypnosis, every time I mail a postcard home I could use Euphoria for a return address.

Staatsbürgerzeitung, an anti-Semitic newspaper that mixed news and prejudice so thoroughly as to render them indistinguishable.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

Nietzsche, in cursing our age, sees in it the heritage of the Gospel, while Dostoevsky, cursing it just as vigorously, sees in it the result of a denial of the Gospel