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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. 'Certainly not,' he replied. 'What have I got then?' 'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.

In bitter safety I awake, unfriended; And while the dawn begins with slashing rain I think of the Battalion in the mud. 'When are you going out to them again? Are they not still your brothers through our blood?

Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?" "That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice.

Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed

Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.

a shallow embankment. It was upright but canted

My God," Davis said, shaking his head. "The tools of the modern vampire hunter - electric lights and cocaine.

The truly perfect pangram would contain all the letters of the alphabet in the right order, but the only thing that achieves that is the alphabet. There are phrases that use fewer characters, but they are not as catchy. And this is not for want of trying. Here are two of the shortest: 'Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.' 'Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.

There is no evidence that having been a good player (or being white and of conservative appearance) is an advantage for a soccer manager.

Had Don Quixote been simply and plainly mad, or had he indulged in a protracted game of self-deception and play-acting, we should not be talking of him now, Van Doren observes—"We are talking of him because we suspect that, in the end, he did become a knight.

You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.

Passwords are for wimps, too," said Melody. "You have to know how to talk to these things. Okay... They started the latest drug trial last evening. Code name, Zarathustra. Oh, shit. That is not good. Whenever some scientist starts quoting Nietzsche, you know it is never going to be good.

Sorry," I said. But I've been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can't wear anything good, in case I develop style.

I want a gun, Happy said immediately. "A really big gun. I want a fully functioning Death Star gun." "Not even if Godzilla himself were to show up," said JC.

Have you got any bow-ties?" I asked Caradoc. "Bow-ties are cool. The Travelling Doctor said so.

The mug had World's Best Secret Agent on one side and Please Don't Tell Anyone on the other. My

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So much for the element of surprise," I said. She sniffed. "I'd rather have the element of naked threat any day.

Bow ties are cool," I said. "The Travelling Doctor said so.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.