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Kein Argument bringt mich so aus der Fessung, als wenn einer mit einem unbedeutenden Gemeinspruche angezogen kommt, wenn ich aus ganzem Herzen rede.

La novela es una epopeya subjetiva en la que el autor pide permiso para tratar el universo a su manera; el único problema consiste en saber si tiene o no una manera; el resto viene por añadidura.

It is a false compliance with the multitude to raise in them emotions which they wish, when these are not emotions which they ought, to feel." "Whoever

I'd pity you," she said in a conversational tone. "But you know,you just aren't worth it. I'd pity your new son, too,but he won't be worth it either after you get done raising him to be just like you-that's if he's even really yours or just-" "Get out!" Mortimer cut in furiously.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose.

in the heart of the city? Mr. Gordon Creighton

book, In the Name of Science, Martin Gardner defines the characteristics of the common crank or pseudoscientist.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

A good manager is now by definition a leader. Equally, a good leader will also be a manger

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.

Christ alive. Satan is a very beefy boy.

Not all of me is dust. Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive.

There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

And the truth is cold, as a giant's knee Will seem cold.

All things seem mention of themselves And the names which stem from them branch out to other referents. Hugely, spring exists again.

Leaves around the door are penciled losses.

Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.

I'm a little surprised that commercial success has arrived. I used to think that it was hopeless, that it would never happen.

I wish I was in Spain now, a glass of wine and a plate of ham." He sighs. "Instead of which I've got all this shit to sort out.