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It is a sin to think words no others think

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

When I die, I hope to go to heaven-- whatever the hell that is-- and I want to be able to afford the price of admission, Virtue is the price of admission. Jim said haughtily. That's what I mean, James. So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all-- that I was a man who made money. Any grafter can make money. James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shape, but always in cost.

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.

Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed

Am I finally addressing a sentient being?

For talk is evil: It is light to raise up quite easily, but it is difficult to bear, and hard to put down. No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: It too is some god." —HESIOD

In this world," he reminded a French friend, "it is not faith that saves us, but defiance.

The right-minded were those who insisted on colonial liberties. Treason, he held, consisted of the failure to defend those liberties.

Beaumarchais sighed, consumed by his own labors, "politics only rewards success. Best efforts earn only a bitter smile.

If all that boasting doesn't tire you out, nothing will!' -- Peter Parker

At the end of the day, Cameron won't be a cyberkinetic superhero ready to save the world. He'll be a boy, standing in front of a girl, offering her the meager gift of his heart and hoping that it's enough.

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only. The Twenty-first Voyage

If thoughts and emotions alone could cause things to happen, thousands of my contemporaries would have married the Beatles in 1964.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

He stood there, silently, and listened to her voice, to the lilting brogue which, he suddenly realized, was the sound of home to him.

wasn't the butler who looked out but Marcus Cynster.

empty glass. "The situation of Miss Dalling and the Marquess does seem to be of some urgency—but how much of that derives