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Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?

The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life: Good for the blood circulation, Good for releasing the tension, The root of our reincarnations.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

Goodall fingered his chin, looking puzzled, as though he'd recently had a beard and someone had taken it while he wasn't looking.

My father was already training me to be an ethnographer, a 'participant observer,' but I was by nature much more of an observer than a participant. And an arrogant little observer at that.

Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.

By now I had learned enough about the narrowness of a woman's choices to guess that they were not all harlots, only less lucky than I had been.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Psyche looked up eagerly. "Voice?" she said. "Is that you?

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day." "I know. Fate has annoying timing.

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WEIRD societies: ones that are Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic.21

Distinctions must be kept in mind,' he advised back in the 1960s, 'between quantity and quality of growth, between

Objectives should be explicit: goals for "more" growth should specify more growth of what and for what.'17

Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

I hope they don't plan to sic the pug police on me," I said, smiling.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.

belonged to an order that flickered out of existence sometime early in the twentieth century.

Betty," I say, shaking her shoulder. "What?" she moans. "Leave me be. I'm bewitched. It makes me tired.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.