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My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard." "Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard?"
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The sergeant major roared like a bear who'd broken a tooth while gnoshing on somebody's skull. I made out no distinct words but in all the history of the universe sergeants major never have been required to be coherent to be understood.
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The common wisdom among former grunts is that competent generals wouldn't have screwed up so bad they got themselves killed and therefore there wouldn't have been any need for a memorial. Soldiers are a cynical bunch.
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money has no provenance. It's never dirty, only the people who handle it are.
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Mistakes that cost lives aren't easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there's human error. It's inevitable. When doctors make mistakes, people hurt.
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monsters aren't born, they're made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work.
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God Save the Queen.'" Which is a particularly filthy drinking song about a cross-dressing fellow who has mad skills as a streetwalker but often gets" --
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into trouble because what he keeps hidden under his skirt has a mind of its own.
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Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do--and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
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None of us are going to get out of this alive so we might as well grab a laugh while we can.
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Nobody who wasn't down there
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Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into perceived truths of the soul.
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If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.
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Lucky me, I'd ended up just getting another lesson revealing the basic blackness lying below the human heart. Once again I'd seen that, given incentive and opportunity, most anybody will jump at the chance to turn wicked. And the wicked will turn wickeder still. Priests of a thousand cults proclaim the essential goodliness of Man. They must be fools. All I see is people flinging themselves at the chance to do evil.
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Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.
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No captive was smart enough to speak a language any of us knew. Talking loud or slow did not help.
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Literacy is sorcery itself in the hinterland.
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My apprentices were exasperating. They were competing to see who was laziest.
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Fools can make an omen of anything in retrospect.
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He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping.
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It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair.
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The essence of sorcery, even for its nonfraudulent practitioners, is misdirection.
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Simple minds respond to simple answers.
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Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself.
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You know you're getting old when everything aggravates you.
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You can't get out of getting old. You can't get out of having a relationship change.
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She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.
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Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag.
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I began to back away.This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.
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Truth is a deadly weapon," Lady said."Which is why priests and princes dread it," I said.
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Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.
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The road can blunt the most iron will.
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He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.
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Raven muttered, "You don't have to be brilliant to be a god."
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Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.
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That your solution to everything? Cut somebody's throat?""Always slows them down."
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Blade muttered, "Makes as much sense as the story of any other god. Meaning it don't."
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I don't think she told any lies. She just forgot to tell the whole truth.
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Time is the enemy whose patience can't be exhausted.
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Half of confidence is the appearance of confidence.
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I won't bore you with their dogma. It's repulsive and I'm not sure it was related to me truthfully.
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And there is no time. There is a war on.Always there is a war on.
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Like most warlords he doesn't let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do.
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