Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHO...
In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that a...
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person’s acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.)
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared...
Lately...the Peter Principle has given way to the Dilbert Principle. The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they ca...
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
Now-what’s our game plan? Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the si...
SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.
She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but fuck was one of them—the very word s...
This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville. Camille cast an eye over his relative’s best handwriting.Squirm, flattery, abasement, squirm, dearest sweetest Camille, squirm sq...
Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.-Lula
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.
Don't panic and carry a towel
Sometimes You Need To Do The Wrong Thing For The Right Reason.
Don't think like a shop girl! Think like a poet!"Veronica, Mary Gatskill
It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom...
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, Wow — we’re identical!
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
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