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I love Greg," said one of his bosses at Deutsche Bank. "I have nothing bad to say about him except that he's a fucking whack job.

The United States took this on as a national priority before anyone in the world

the kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, "Yo, shithead—you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?

she hates that levee the way you and I hate hell and the Republicans.

Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference.

Meaning, Elric? Do not seek that, for madness lies in such a course.

And that is one thing that no amount of freedom or "licence" or "permissiveness" or whatever the old fogies call it can cope with. That is the odd assumption found in the twentieth century (I wonder if you who read this will know what those two stupid words mean?):

Tanelorn had taken many forms in her endless existence, but all those forms, save one, had been beautiful.

Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented.

Relaxed, I lit a spliff.

The hunting dogs of the Dharzi!" gasped Shaarilla. "I thought that they, like their masters, were long extinct!

She was looking out of the window The Butterfly Lion

we order our lives with barely held stories

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

Intotdeauna si-a dorit cuvinte, le iubea, crescuse printre ele. Cuvintele ii dadeau claritate, ii ofereau o logica, un tipar. Pe cand eu simteam ca vorbele indoaie emotiile ca pe niste nuiele inmuiate in apa.

They would never have dropped such a bomb on a white nation.

plucked the antlered hat of fire from his head.

witnessed anything so obscene. The shocked silence among the boys in the

They unthinkingly internalize the mainstream pronouncement and then repeat it as their own opinion, as indeed it has become.

Their quest was not to investigate heterodoxy but to insulate themselves from it.

This difference between a probability statement on the one hand, and the probability of a statement, or the degree of belief in a statement on the other, may seem elusive, but is actually quite obvious.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the 'pieds de Dieu'—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.