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sight and snapped a switch on his call box. 'Have

He says you make good coffee and you get up kind of late in the mornings and are apt to run to a very bright line of chatter and that we should believe anything you say, provided we can check it by five independent witnesses.

There was my yellow cowhide, well scraped on both sides from being pushed around in the boots of cars.

Her voice became an icy drawl. Take me away from here, if you will be so kind. I'm quite sure I'd like to go home. You won't be a sister to me? If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat Ã¢â'¬â€ just to see what ran out of it.

I put the doped whiskey down where he could reach it, if his hands hadn't been strapped.

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.

on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.

thirty-year legal career. His robes were tossed on the couch behind them. His desk served as a workstation

The artistry of the writing is meant to stir the whole of our person, since it's the whole of that person who must feel the force of philosophy and be changed as a consequence.

You valorize intelligence because that's your most valued personal characteristic, just like the model feels about her beauty and the football player about his talent for using his body weight to mow down other human bodies.

Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)

Is it a true story?" Sorel had asked Fraydel. "S'iz an emesa mysah?" (p. 100)

J. B. Morton, who wrote: "Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes and laugh in a cold, calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, and favor beards.")

Disagreement can be useful even when its intention is adversarial. Half my muses have been haters.

Clearly the ready availability of guns is a huge problem for the United States, but despite this availability to everyone, murder is still a crime committed by men 90 percent of the time.

a map written in the darkness of your guts, readable in a cross section of your autopsied heart.

A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch—

If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.

The door to this era's potential paradises is hell.

True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

feel. Or you might plead that it was not slanderous because it was true. Even this is not always an acceptable defence, I should add. The truth can often be slanderous if it is put in certain ways. But still, it would be your best bet.

Whymper se stal tradi?ním horolezcem – pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tím, kterým na Matterhornu být nechtÄ›l.

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

Judea is, for all intents and purposes, a temple-state.