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I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about Saddam Hussein, there would have been a rather abrupt "regime change" in Iraq long before now. Christopher Hitchens
Ah!" thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, "that was what she came for." At last he said with a calm ai? "Dear madame, I have not got them." He did not lie. If he had had them, he would, no doubt, have given them, although it is generally disagreeable to do such fine things: a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive. Gustave Flaubert
I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other. Fyodor Dostoevsky
What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons Gene Wilder
Demetri Martin quote: "I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed,..."
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. Demetri Martin
Jodi Picoult quote: "Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but..."
Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got. Jodi Picoult
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt. Barbara Ehrenreich
Elvis Costello quote: "He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge."
He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge. Elvis Costello
[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself. Tom Robbins
Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part. Charlaine Harris
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is. Terry Prachett
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy Margaret Mitchell
Terry McMillan quote: "happiness aint got no Ph. D. or no certain amount of zeroes..."
happiness aint got no Ph. D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it! Terry McMillan
When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown. J. K. Rowling
Anne Lamott quote: "I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I..."
I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice. Anne Lamott

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