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Succinct is always good in inter-office communications.

bit: that there was a possibility of a conspiracy aimed at Michaela Bowden.

for seventy-five dollars. They were workin

Having Monday be Pizza Day subverts the natural order of things.

Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was

Too many details and I'm out of my very peculiar little closet (it's a lovely closet; it smells of pine and desperation).

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?

full of the belief that a conspiracy of women upholds the world.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

What people referred me as is the Father of Manitoba.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Homie you got it backwards, your dipping your soup inside your crackers.

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager

But how can you expect a clown to stop a circus? Bill

see them." "They're asleep." "Can I pop in anyway?" "Sure," she said. "I just

Woman, thy name is perversity!

could give them, not the dutiful, selfish and perfunctory love of an adolescent, but an understanding love that would lighten

of more than six hundred pages, published in Paris in 1846

I spoke with the assurance of a young woman who thought her experience with natural history and ad hoc education in other subjects more than qualified her to hold forth on topics she knew nothing about at all. The truth is that any such comparison is far more complicated and doubtful than I presented it that evening; but it is also true that no one in my audience knew any more about it than I did, and most of them knew less. My assertion was therefore allowed to stand unchallenged. For

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.