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No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.

he did and, secretly armed, went to a small sandy islet where a small house had been built to accommodate the ceremony.

Others were avoiding debtors' prison; once they obtained a berth on a ship

Cervantes's words, as "the shelter and refuge of Spain's desperadoes, the church of the lawless

everybody but me seemed so cool and so blasé about the various and sundry crimes they had committed.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all, so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all. The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.

And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?--Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,--quite an irregular thing!

And in this, Sir, I am of so nice and singular a humour, that if I thought you was able to form the least judgment or probable conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page, - I would tear it out of my book.

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called Symbolism in My Books? If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.

Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities…

God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. —Benjamin Franklin, 1722

She's packing at least five grand worth of orthodontia, but has great shoes.

Words are hard work. I hope they send Hairwoman to a conference or something. I'm ready to help pay for a sub.

It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft going on.

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it.

This is not a midlife crisis car," I corrected him. "This is a midlife memory car!

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

You envy me my educated tastes.

I think not. I find short hair too much fuss, always needing combing and cutting. Long hair is much easier, oddly enough." There

I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is the most sane. - Damian Adler

Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified.

Do you plan on indulging your flair for the dramatic throughout our time here?" "I expect so," he said complacently.