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MEELEE'S AWAY (after Waley)     Meelee's away in Lima.     No one breeds flowers in my head. Of course, women do breed flowers in my head     but not like Meelee's—     So fragile, so pale.

There was no such thing as the Vietnam War. This rather surprising statement is in fact 100% true - on a technicality. As the US Congress never actually declared war officially against the country, the correct title is the Vietnam Conflict.

When Arthur Weasley has to enter a number into the telephone box to get into the Ministry of Magic, he dials '62442'. Press the buttons on your cellphone spelling the word 'Magic' and see what you get...

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

York Mets (that year an expansion club) acquired

The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite

Misogyny has rarely manifested itself in such a sinister form, representing as it does the complete inability of men to relate to adult women.

Three thousand additional troops from Ireland commanded

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

The dharma is a universal medicine.

Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. "My botherations often won't let me work,"11 he complained. He

They purposefully omitted the science behind his assertions because the Blue Church does not play fair.

I had just sold the rights to this book to HBO, and King had read about the transaction. He looked at me from the adjacent urinal, and broke a tense silence. "I read in the newspapers," King roared, "that I'm now feeding your whole motherfucking family.

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

the protagonist-complication-resolution model for story. You see it in various forms. Philip Gerard, who writes both novels and book-length narrative nonfiction, says a story follows when "a character we care about acts to fulfill his desires with important consequences.