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Steig Larsson quote: "Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get..."
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? Steig Larsson
Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible. Patton Oswalt
Emily Bronte quote: "We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and..."
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering. Emily Bronte
All music is what awakes within uswhen we are reminded by the instruments; It is not the violins or the clarinets -It is not the beating of the drums -Nor the score of the baritone singinghis sweet romanza; not that of the men's chorus, Nor that of the women's chorus -It is nearer and farther than they Walt Whitman
Ellis Peters quote: "Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls..."
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. Ellis Peters
South Richmond was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches- and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris. Tom Robbins
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. William S. Burroughs
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any..."
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. Friedrich Nietzsche
Gromph closed his eyes and let the logic settle. Jarlaxle was right, of course. Menzoberranzan was a place so wound up in its own intrigue that truth mattered less than suspicion, that suspicion often became a self-fulfilling prophecy, and thus, often created truth. (This applies to all of the world, I believe) R. A. Salvatore
Oscar Wilde quote: "It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more..."
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. Oscar Wilde
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing..."
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Against all such pretty infants (the dears have such winning ways) the advice of the Psalm is the best. Knock the little bastards' brains out. And "blessed" be he who can, for it's easier said than done. C. S. Lewis
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index. C. S. Lewis
Love me this first day of June.I'd rather sleep with ashes than priestly wisdom.Of all the lonely places in the world this is best where debris is human.I kiss the precious ashes that fall from fiery flesh.On these familiar shapes I lay my kisses down. Leonard Cohen
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer... Pearl S. Buck

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