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I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence.

The play may actually have profited from having an unworthy hero: Custer, for all his early brilliance

How about a kiss?" "Are you man enough to try?" she asked.

Certainly," Augustus said. "I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches—that didn't require an abundance of sense. Mexican bandits did not impress him.

Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word.

so that the ship was falling toward the sun; and then he swung the nose inward and began to increase velocity

Louis Wu hardly noticed this triumph of practicality over honor, intelligence over xenophobia.

Nessus sprawled bonelessly in his couch. He looked ridiculously, ludicrously comfortable.

Halrloprillalar's tale of the bacterium that eats superconductor is in our records, the Hindmost said.

But man, it's a start! said Whitbread. There's got to be a way— I am not a man, and there doesn't got to be a way. And that's another reason I don't want contact between your species and mine. You're all Crazy Eddies. You think every problem has a solution.

Are you bringing antimatter to Hearth? You play with star-fire energies as casually as you put edges on furniture!

newspaper at that very table, and was racing

I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

Laura Ingalls Wilder

beside the shells. There were three shells. The man pointed to the same shell that

That was Laura, because she was so small.

I hope," she said, "that you didn't stay out of some foolish romantical notion." He looked down, staring at the tumbled bedclothes. "Such as?" "Saving my life." He looked up again with a grimace. "Naturally not. I usually throw my houseguests off the cliff.

But my quarrel with the concept of maternal instinct isn't why I never had kids myself. I was never particularly opposed to the idea of having kids—let no one say that I don't love kids! It always seemed like an interesting future possibility, the same way that joining the Peace Corps someday seemed like an interesting future possibility.

unstable control freak, according to Jack Miles, God's unflappable biographer (God: A Biography).

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Why are you only wearing one shoe? he asked. I lost the other. It upsets me to talk about it.

But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them recognizable.

Hitler's aide, used to see her sitting with Hitler in his study at night, wearing a dressing gown, having champagne while he drank tea.