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Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian.

UMW executives were openly inciting mobs to riot.

Roosevelt was relieved to hear the good news. "I don't care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don't want to see them go down the first day I am President!

demonstrators against bloodsports are "logical vegetarians of the flabbiest Hindoo type." President

About as thorough-paced a scoundrel as I ever saw," Roosevelt declared. "An oily-Gammon, churchgoing specimen."45

He might have to spend the rest of his presidency answering to the two classes of people always most vociferous in hard times: the bewildered and the guilty.

Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues

no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . . Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.

Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.

Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.

I think he had no notion how little an effect the word sin had on me. He might as well have said, Homosexuality is bad juju

There was no way to defend what I was. All I could fight for was my right to choose my exile, my destruction.

Nor did Kevin go, "Ew-w," when he pulled his penis out and it was brown and smelly, and that, too, Guy considered a rite de passage .

He was amused by their 'ass stories' ( histoires de cul ) told over morning coffee at noon about their exploits the night before.

Nothing but rules. Rule the first: no callers at the front door. Rule the second: no callers at the back door. Rule the third: no going out after dark. The six dusters had to be washed each evening and accounted for.

Because I had hankered to go back to America, my husband-to-be agreed that we could go there for a year, while the building work was being done.

most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.

by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.