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The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

I keep ego and attitude always in my pockets,so that I can use it when my self-respect and sentiments are being tested by people.

A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.

To earn a fool respect, you can't try to be an intellectual with them, you have to learn to speak their type of language, so they can understand and trust you, then you will earn their respect!

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

Boys are stupid. Relationships suck. I love being single.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

This is so weird. I feel like bambi just morphed into a raging nymphomaniac.

Of course not," she snapped. "I'm only thirsty. Would you play the gallant and find me a glass of lemonade?" "I assume 'lemonade' is code for wine?

You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.

That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just praying one of the scruffy campers was actually a raving beast.

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It's an offense of majesty to love Olympic gods like common mortals. Shouldn't they be just worshiped?

Ellis could be bringing me to Persephone's underworld and I'd be glad for the change in scenery.

Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness.

With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies.

These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.

I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But

Vodka was one of the three things the Soviet Union made that were suitable for export, not counting political exiles; the other two were weapons and novels.

Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made.