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Roger Tipple did not have a weak chin so much as a very aggressive neck.

Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this.

each opportunity for escape was undermined by his certainty that things were about to go back to normal, that this savage new reality could not hold.

never had an inevitability been so politely proposed

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue.

brought down the roof of the doghouse, and a squeal from the dog, who had just had his tail

There was pain and then there was pain. Different magnitudes you could stand or not stand. Wetting your beak and wetting your beak.

Alma used the word settled the way the less genteel used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.

Humiliation was his currency, but tonight Miss Laura had picked his pocket.

Do we judge a man by the weight of the envelope-or whom he gives it to?

You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive.

The tightrope walk was an act of creation that seemed to stand in direct defiance to the act of destruction twenty-seven years later. About Let the Great World Spin

A priest? I said. --A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis. --Theologian, said the other. --One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.

funk. The official cause of death, given by

She prefers men who appreciate her mind as well as her appearance." "Yes, she would, wouldn't she?" He thought for a moment. "Is she dreadfully intelligent?" Amusement twinkled in Veronica's eyes but her tone was somber. "Dreadfully." "That can't be helped, I suppose." He nodded. "Anything else?

The world's only all comprehensive theory of imperial conquest: the constipation hypothesis, or the shit-glory affinity.

I think it was Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose." An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

As a psychiatrist, Frankl avoided direct reference to his personal religious beliefs. He was fond of saying that the aim of psychiatry was the healing of the soul, leaving to religion the salvation of the soul.

Apart from that strange kind of humor, another sensation seized us: curiosity.

Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.

learned meaninglessness." He himself remembered a therapist who said, "George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There's no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act."13

That's where your friend is, floating up to Heaven