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But shooting a man takes one of two things: an overwhelming fear of one's own death, which Nick did not have in the least; or conviction. It turned out he lacked this component as well.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

He remembered perceived slights, something of a cliche in the blood-feud Caucasus culture but also common among narcissists (another word for many a professional revolutionary).

Scholars who write of Moscow facing an "uncooperative world economy" have it exactly backward.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

Here is where it leads us. And let me make this clear: there is nothing that happened in that wounding experience with that church that is worth what is happening to you now.

A vegetarian, the führer was sensitive to the feelings of animals and remarked: "The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would do well to turn its attention to the sportsmen themselves."6 As the war and the Holocaust would prove, he had no such sensitivity to humans.

And now they smile at Paradine, Who but would smile at Paradine? (That man of games, called Paradine) For the Gamesman came his way. Paradine

The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.

the way of the world is evil. It does not become any less evil because we disguise it with harmless-sounding phrases like 'status quo' or 'business as usual'—it merely makes the evil more palatable to us.

Blame, now. There is a nasty black bog if ever there was one.

Unlike most I don't fear prison, never have, never will. Obviously I don't want it, I hate it, but it's the hate that drives me on to survive.

A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' "Doc,' I said, '…you're the problem!

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

Perhaps 'tis not strictly in accordance with the evidence ... but even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.