A lark, caught in a hunter’s netSang sweeter then than ever,As if the falling melodyMight wing and net disseverAt dusk the hunter took his prey,The lark his freedom never.All birds and men are sure to...
You’re a queer?That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s shoulders.Well, what the hell, he said. At least you’re not a Republican.
This is amazing, Volodya said. He’s the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!Something like that, Woody said. We call it democracy.
You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply.
What you’re doing is wrong, he said. I mean evil. To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It’s far worse than any sin.
Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead.
He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and...
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.
Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.
He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it’s because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.
I think more people should shoot newspaper editors...it might improve the press
Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.
A waiter appeared, and Gus said: Bring coffee for my guests, please, and a plate of ham sandwiches. He deliberately did not ask them what they wanted. He had seen Woodrow Wilson act like this with peo...
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