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He wondered if a man actively seeking to surrender could be captured.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;And all best things are thus confused with ill.

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night!

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

This secret in the pregnant womb of time, Too vast a matter for so weak a rhyme.

Most vain all hope but love. - Prometheus Unbound

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

Tell someone who may be in an excellent position to get even with you, to "go fuck himself." The satisfaction will do you more good than the anxiety.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for more copy editors.

He scart me," the girl said. Miss Mary nodded and looked over at her in a slow, tired way. "That's your common sense talkin'," she said. "That man scare anybody got common sense.

the voice was deeper, richer, with more timbre

Announcer - "And where are you from Pete?" Pete Townshend - "London, I'm from London." Announcer - "London where, exactly?" Pete - "London, England

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

As a means of diagnosis only, I consider the value of the method to be on the whole as great as that of catheter ism; but the latter we shall, I think, find to be more efficacious in the treatment, than applicable in the investigation of disease.

the tiger, or leave. I'm not in the mood for chitchat.

sneered at Lloyd and

The modern definition of a racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Structure is all around us and available to us through the poet's medium of metaphor.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

Just ignore him and he'll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged her. Just ignore him. All he wants is attention. In retrospect there seems to be something almost cruel about that—to simultaneously acknowledge and refuse someone's desire for attention—especially a child's. All he wants is attention, as if it's bad to want attention, like wanting money or power or fame.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.