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Trust your reader, stop patronising your reader, give your reader credit for being smart as you at least.

Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!

Rosenzweig daringly criticizes Plato's dialogues because in them "the thinker knows his thoughts in advance," and moreover the other is only raising the objections the author thought of himself.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Where the fuck is Mickey!? Fuck's sake! If there's no Mickey, this shit ain't Disney!

So are you saying you've weaponized the food?

Then what the hell did you become an imperial noble for!?" "Not sure, but not to surround myself with a bevy of harem girls." "Your values leave me scandalized and appalled.

Then why'd you join to begin with?" "I didn't think there'd actually be a war.

Encountering our dialect during those years was always disconcerting, provoking in me, and with equal force, both fear and longing.

It represented, in moments of desperation, the possibility of finally cheating myself out of exile.

Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked To which of my sorrows should I yield.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can

He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

It's disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.

She wants me to take out Patton." Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?" "No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.