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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

we may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Confess: its my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I dont go out of my way to be scary.

A lot of poets published their own work then; unlike novels, poetry was short, and therefore cheap to do. We had to print each poem separately, and then disassemble it, as there were not enough a's for the whole book; the cover was done with a lino-block. We printed 250 copies, and sold them through bookstores, for 50 cents each. They now go in the rare book trade for eighteen hundred dollars a pop. Wish I'd kept some.

Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE All during the time that Dr.

The idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking--one that we will challenge throughout the book.

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Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire.

disarmament was an idea just of Jews, Socialists, and hysterical women

I would take care you speak of her with respect for, of course, I will interpret any disrespect for her as disrespect for me.

Holmes gets like this when facing an interesting problem. Pay him no mind. He is not deliberately being rude." I could not forebear smiling a little. "When he is deliberately being rude you will know about it. You and everyone else in the general vicinity.

She thinks you're stalking me." "Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

Woman, thy name is perversity!

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.

I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere

great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

my dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?...

you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes

I swear, Papa, I'd give my virtue if it would get my novels published,' she exclaimed in vexation. 'I'm certain we've tried everything else.