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The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.

A pause here as the people around the fire, predominately male, contemplated the amputation of their entire sex for the sin of having external genitalia.

Jinnah said, as early as in the first decade of the twentieth century, that separate electorates would lead to the destruction of Indian unity; and so they did.

I have it on good authority- well, I have it on distinctly disreputable but probably truthful authority- that his enterprises are perfectly well known to the local new police.

broken glass is my bracelet with its heart-shaped diamond and benitoite charm.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin's temple. "Remember, bi***. You can't spell 'danger' without DNA." Blam.

People ask me whether I feel any hope for the future. I want to say to you: Yes, I do. I absolutely do. Not hope for the human race; we're screwed. But I feel tremendous hope for the Insect Overlords who shall succeed us as masters of the Earth.

Artistic flourishes like this may have seemed like a waste of energy, but they were central to the survival of the city and the pride of its inhabitants.

The soldiers leaned into the windows and said that they were requisitioning the car for the Revolution.

You became a memory everyone could share / and my work in this life is to chisel at memory.

On la croirait sortie d'une comptine où la douceur des mélodies enrobe de miel des historiettes cruelles.

Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to

The president's admiration for autocrats is so ingrained that it extends to men even less worthy of respect than these.

He (Mussolini) also stopped comparing himself to Caesar, wondering aloud if Jesus Christ might be a more apt comparison.

Principled Realism is merely a slogan; America First is a slogan with a past.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear

I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.

You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?" "Not only am I ill, I am sure I am contagious.

if our children are to thrive in a world that is rapidly evolving and full of uncertainty, they need less structure and more play.

As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

I remembered what Odysseus had said about her once. That she never went astray, never made an error. I had been jealous then. Now I thought: what a burden. What an ugly weight upon your back.