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You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.

Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

The Howard Hughes thing hadn't actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.

Probably the best way to kill aesthetes is with valuable objets d'art so that in death they can still get mad over an act of vandalism.

she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.

On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea.

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

twenty pfennigs per pound. Hitler

King Henry—have exchanged her son's inheritance for

The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.

This is so bad for him. Hundreds of people saying wonderful marvellous far too young what a genius. It seems to me that it is does not take miraculous intelligence to master the simple fact that '??????‡? is Odysseus, if you go on to master 5,000 similar simple facts you have only shown that you are a miracle of obstinacy.

It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter.

It's amazing that the city we live in allows "pets" that belong in a sideshow, but makes it illegal for me to have a switchblade.

That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Baltasar Garzón,

Le Vernet, like Gurs and a small number of the other camps across the south-west, was expressly conceived as a punishment or disciplinary camp.

unprecedented wave of anticlerical violence,

a Phrygian bonnet (a well-known symbol of the Republic)

The value she gave to the power of relationship was fundamental to Lucretia [Mott]'s sense of social activism.