Niccolò, for God’s sake, they accused me of being an accessory to murder, they said I planted a gun at that villa, they’ve indicted me for making false statements and obstruction of justice! They thre...
Jennie’s testimony was meaningless to determine the facts of the case, but that he was allowing it anyway. The judge wanted to see the signing chimpanzee in action.
Jennie never did reject me, however. Oh no. She loved me to the very end. Her love for me was more powerful than anything the Archibalds could undermine.
I have not felt her presence, as I had always believed I should if she should predecease me. Where is she? I am afraid for her, and for myself.
I have my books. I don’t live in the actual world. I am imperturbable.
Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.
He also said you never really knew what kind of side effects might pop up until at least ten thousand people had taken a drug,
Fortune makes promises to many, keeps them to none. Live for each day, live for the hours, since nothing is forever yours.
Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.
Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, ‘cabinet of curiosities’? Nora wondered at the man’s ability to pile on non sequiturs. Wasn’t it a kind of natural history collection? Precisely. It was the...
Do you know, I’ve always believed there’s no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that’s all.
Diamond writes: We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their shor...
Carroting, you must understand, was a process by which animal fur is bathed in a solution of mercury nitrate, in order to render the hairs more supple, thus producing a superior felt. At this last wor...
But all was not well; a creeping rot—environmental, economic, and social—had been undermining its society for some time and would eventually lead to destruction.
Back in their special forces days, there were times when Pendergast had disappeared just like this—no word to anyone—only to reappear later with some important objective accomplished. It had happened...
As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.
There are four biosafety levels, BSL-1 to BSL-4.)
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Quincunx,
When you ask Web sophisticates why people are so vicious on the Internet, you get a set of stock responses. The very question is naïve. What do you expect? The world is full of angry people who don’t...