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Lookit that,' she says. 'We just saved us the price of a Chik 'n' Mix.' Deep fucken trouble keeps my euphoria at bay.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly insane beast.

His suave loins of darkness, dark-clad and suave

Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.

Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?' 'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

Well!' he said at last. `I agree to anything. The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

This act of masculine clumsiness was the spear through the side of her love for Morel.

No, it's man that poisons the universe," she asserted.

Nothing else, sir? came the neutral voice, like one in a dream.

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

Are you always like this? he asked. Loathing the very flesh on your bones, and the words of your mouth? It's only the unnatural things, she replied. When things natural they are beautiful. And what isn't natural? he asked. Everything man had made, she answered, including himself.

Now my own followers will want to do me to death again, for having risen up different from their expectation.

Take my words, and fling Them down on the counter roundly; See if they ring.

Can I ask you a question? I'd be disappointed if you didn't. How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey? - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR

his dress and was scurrying down the hallway back toward

And the pathetic part of it is that frequently those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos by a show of tumult and conceit which is truly nauseating. As Shakespeare put it: " … man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / … Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.

confusion is the main cause of worry

Resentment caused by a brash order may last a long time—even if the order was given to correct an obviously bad situation.

you will not alter their opinions, for you have hurt their feelings.

gunman who didn't smoke or drink – was at bay, trapped in his sweetheart's apartment

Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.

South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future.