Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell th...
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
ABOYNE (vb.)To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a success...
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drug...
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.
Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had th...
For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the ni...
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Good evening, it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters into a m...
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called t...
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful devi...
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
I don't know what this great thing I'm meant to be doing is, and it looks to me as if I was supposed not to know. And I resent that, right? The old me knew. The old me cared. Fine, so far so good. Exc...
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
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