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I could find him every noon, sitting on a bench in the Rathaus Park with a small, fat bag of hothouse radishes in his lap and a bottle of beer in one hand.

As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.)

But he was sullen about it, with the predictable attitude of someone who has been right—at all costs. And, therefore, wonders if he was wrong.

This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't

It would always amaze me, how Frank could make pure idiocy sound logical.

Sure, I know them. You can't exactly get lost in Winnipeg.

Well, how could he refuse? Besides, Jack's mom and Mrs. Oastler had no idea how the myth of his writing something, which Emma had so presciently set in motion, was now a reality.

But he was not acting in this performance—they were.

As could be seen by the fate of the man who could only walk on his hands, Garp had a thing about escalators.

If pride was a sin, thought Dr. Larch, the greatest sin was moral pride. He

He seemed only slightly intimidated by my muscles; he had an arrogance larger than most people's hearts and minds.

Just give me the antibiotic," Esperanza said. "Of course I'll be infected again! I'm a prostitute.

She told all the would-be biographers, exactly as he would have, "Read the work. Forget the life.

Robertson Davies

with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise

If he'd had half a brain, he might have anticipated the problem inherent in watching a movie with Emma and Claudia.

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

the public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs.

in 1790, had discovered a population nearing four million, of which, he reported in a dour aside, almost seven hundred thousand were slaves.

I sometimes think we were immortal fools to start this country with a revolution. It's helped put a stamp of respectability on violence ever since.

The Mafia, meanwhile, had benefited greatly from its collusion with American intelligence

Three Roman governments were established, for the provinces of Gallia Celtica (with the headquarters of the Governor General in Lyon), Gallia Belgica, corresponding roughly to what is now Belgium, and Aquitania in the south-west corner;