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Boredom creeps up on you slowly..wraps its tendrils around and tugs you until you'll do anything to escape it.

It was lucky for Fred that he had already published two solid articles and was in the eighteenth century, where good candidates are scarce. Fred

The troops were so close at hand I could smell pate from the goose step.

a patrician face vaguely reminiscent of one of the better-fed Roman emperors

The first criticism I ever read was of my first book, H.M.S. 'Ulysses.' It got two whole pages to itself in a now defunct Scottish newspaper, with a drawing of the dust jacket wreathed in flames and the headline 'Burn this book.' I had paid the Royal Navy the greatest compliment of which I could conceive: this dolt thought it was an act of denigration.

As an individual struggling with a language not his own he was difficult to dislike.

No matter what conservatives may think, traditions had a beginning that was not traditional. They had a founder who was not a conservative or a traditionalist. The fundamental values informing that tradition were his creation.

unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo]

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of culture quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

God has not regulated the laws of nature to meet the demands of human vanity." The Spirits' Book

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme.

I have chosen not to name any particular ship because its identity is not relevant to my story. The fact is that a ship was there. And for whatever reason, that ship did nothing.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

carnal responses from those who "purport" to be God's people open the floodgates for disorder and every evil thing.

Gene was working on a new show called Star Trek. On a napkin, he drew for Alton, wide-eyed, a picture of the starship called Enterprise.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Most blogs are just some boring chick telling you everything you never wanted to know about her stupid life. Every single day she tells you more boring details until you just want to write to her and say, 'Yo, bitch, when something actually happens, let me know!

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row.

wounded turkey do? Hobble, hobble!) Now, some monkeys might do fine in the trees, but I prefer the dance floor of

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.