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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

It was as clear a guiding ethos for his life as Trump seemed to have: hate should be a civic good.

that the notion of privilege as something to which one could "easily cop," as in "cop to once and be done with," is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.

the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.

Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

96. For a prince of blue is a prince of blue because keeps 'a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere' (Lowell, 1870) This is how a prince of blue becomes a pain devil.

For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

It seems to me crucial — even ethically crucial — to treat with caution any rhetoric that purports to have all ethical goodness on its side.

the history of psychology does not exactly fill me with faith in its teleological progress. p. 204

No less than GOD says she needs to put aside the sanity-producing magazine and pillow and start fucking her husband! Get over yourself and start fucking!

Whoever it used to belong to wishes her

Even the cook has to admit that there are advantages to living alongside a dynasty of cats.

He's instructed the boys to conjugate the verb 'incarcerate': the repeated hard c sound seems to scrape at the walls of the room, as if the very words themselves are seeking escape.

She's got a hair-trigger temper and paper-thin patience and a black panther for a pet.

Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?

Consultants, being the intelligent people we are, have formalized the guessing process; we call it a proposal.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph

the laws remain undisturbed (ch. xxvii.). Apparent exceptions, the miracles, originate in these laws, although man is unable to perceive the causal relation.

His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman.

fascination that made Vatican Council II appeal to Conor as catnip