But he had once told Watson that the less or fewer issue, along with the use of I in such sentences as He gave the money to Sheila and I, inflicted on the public by people who considered themselves we...
But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us may hold a piece to a puzzle no one else has been able to solve since humankind f...
America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use prop...
Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There
Feels the same about life - that involvement with it is like the Catholic Communion only the World is the Host, and it must be chewed.
A comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Чудовищное существо вдохнуло в себя душу Хикки. Но потом оно отшатнулось, потрясло огромной головой, раздраженно фыркнуло, словно отплевываясь от какой-то мерзости. Оно
Жизнь дается лишь раз, и она несчастна, убога, отвратительна, жестока и коротка.
Дейл тихо опустил голову, зная, что все это — спутник, и пещеру бутлегеров, и многое многое другое — могут повториться и завтра, и через неделю, но что этот момент — друзья сидевшие рядом, едва слышны...
Will. I swear I will.
We so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Wanted to know how any ethical system—much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it—could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son.
There must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level … that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
Takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature
No nation was better at creating metaphors for itself than America; in this case, the vision of a beautiful, sane, safe, marble future that is all dream and no marble to sustain it.
In Theo – quiet, efficient Theo – to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero’s to get him through the night. Trusting in the unimpo...
He spied what appeared to be a crystal scarab rotating far above him, its insides ablaze with cool lights.
At that moment, the sum of the crowd’s IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.