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but he was a careful man who never let thoughts about the future interfere with present business.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

Freedom is a two-edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other responsibility, on which both edges are exceedingly sharp; and which is not easily handled by casual, cowardly or treacherous hands.

Mama says mine is a night mind.

In olden times, when wishing still helped...." - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy "He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.

Wasn't me who said capitalism was wrong. I just didn't want another argument with Carol. Big projects need capital. It's when the people who have the capital get laws made in their favour that it all goes bad.

She was a contradiction like that, you know. The things she wrote down were warmer than her, in person. That sounds like she's dead, he thought. Well, in a way, she is, you know, in a way she is dead. — 'How To Get Away With Suicide

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.

and the Butler gave her a ride back to the apartment in a wheelbarrow. She did not laugh so much as wince and be pale.)

We treat ourselves both as objects of language and as speakers of language, both as objects of the symbolism and as symbols in it. And all the difficult paradoxes which go right back to Greek times and reappear in modern mathematics depend essentially on this.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

The Mishnah is from no one special in utopia, to whom it may concern.

I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

Can we talk about this after we practice? I hate to say this, but I need to shoot something." He

During the winter people on the island either drink too much or read too much. Which are you?

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito.

Many girls enjoyed kissing men they didn't love. It was supposed to be normal.

Tell-tale tit, your tongue shall be split, and all the little doggies will have a little bit.