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You don't think eating dead bodies is harmful? I gasped. We haven't had any complaints from the dead yet, Gavner chortled, but his humor was forced — he looked as uncomfortable as I felt.

You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

Bill-E his knife. He grimaces and tries to wipe the muck off on his

I had to go along with them. Indecision is the source of chaos, as Paris Skyle used to say.

You are a true vampire, Darren Shan, as worthy to walk the night as any I know.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

He's cute, I said. Uh-huh, the grey man agreed, and so's dynamite.

Are you asleep?" I said I was. She lit a cigarette for me, one for herself. "Don't you ever think you'd like to go back to detecting once in a while just for the fun of it?

he always got a lot of fun of acting like the other half of a half-wit ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XX

I told him about the letter Wynant had sent his sister. He said: "He writes a lot of people, don't he?

Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready. Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?

Asta jumped up and punched me in the belly with her front feet.

I'm not saying all the women were hot. Some of them, if they fell overboard, they'd be harpooned by Japs.

This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands. --Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical

The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen

I have long believed that nobody actually makes fruitcakes. I believe that all fruitcakes were formed thousands of years ago by some kind of horrible natural catastrophe involving: fruit, cake, and a radioactive meteorite

Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way.

bigger of the two. He had a nose wart the size and shape of a small mushroom.

And it ain't a man, thought Slank.

When I read this, naturally my reaction as a concerned American was hahahahahahahahaha.

A. Yes, that's what I say, but my son claims he knows of mice named Tom. COMPUTER: HA HA! WHAT A CRETIN.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.

But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs.