Stop believing what you want to believe. It’s unbecoming
She could taste loss in the back of her throat so badly that she could vomit.
I don’t know how anyone can appreciate devotion that slavish. It’s not objective. I have a similar issue with religion.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from...
I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me...
I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.
Irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either.
Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be.Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their don...
Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.But the of a naked body is something special.
To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.
I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the...
She threw off her coat and hefted the machine gun concealed inside it. It was a Vektor SS77: heavy and awkward, but capable of nine hundred rounds a minute. Four steps to her right took her out of the...
I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective, I was an independent animal, exercising free will in order to el...
After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. I promise not to turn you into my thought slave, she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought abou...
It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.
I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their...
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