The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated...
The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind, he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any oth...
The best lies stay close to the truth.
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared he...
The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egre...
The choice of how our people's future shall be shaped is yours, Manon told each of the witches assembled, all the Blackbeaks who might fly off to war and never return. But I will tell you this. Her ha...
The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (author...
The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading ma...
The day you shot Scrooge, we had a nine stashed nearby. We knew that tension was building between us and you, and so we started to keep the nine nearby instead of the .380 pistol. So when you came up...
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
¡Oh noche! ¡Oh refrescantes tinieblas! ¡Sois para mí señal de fiesta interior, sois liberación de una angustia! ¡En la soledad de las llanuras, en los laberintos pedregosos de una capital, centelleo d...
«Hayır, senin en büyük kusurun tecrübesizliğin değil. Kayıtsızlığın. Yenilgilerini senden daha zeki ve yetenekli olanların elinden tatmayacaksın. Seni yenenler, sabırlı, sinsi, orta düzeyde insanlar o...
Älskade Lillebror, vad är det som har hänt, sa hon och slog armarna om honom.Krister har kastat sten på mej, sa Lillebror argt.Nej, vet nån vad, sa mamma, en sån elak pojke! Varför kom du inte in och...
…I went away from your side,in love without knowing it.Now I don’t know how your eyeslook, nor your hands, nor your hair.
…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy w...
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
…reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped—indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would t...
…the child's heart bled when it was broken.
If you added up all the time wasted searching for shortcuts and trying to cheat the process, the hard work could have already been done by now.
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