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Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it!" I might have said that a bit too loudly, because people on the sidewalk look at me out of the corners of their eyes and swerve away from the man talking to a giant dog about where to drop a pound."
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Giving a witch your body fluids is akin to slicing off a choice cut of your buttocks and offering it to a werewolf.
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Well, when you're rockin' out with the Crue, it's like a religious experience, dude.
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When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?
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At that point Daddy took them to a cemetery and said, "Here, kids--what you need is a nice corpse snack. Clotted blood! Om nom nom!"
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It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity.
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know them
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is the Way and the Truth.
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Granuaile shook her head. "No, it's gross. You are such a guy sometimes." "
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Nakari would place bullet holes on their temples like periods at the end of a sentence.
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far past the time when everything might have turned out well. We are now in crisis management, hoping that things will turn out badly instead of much, much worse." That"
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That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.
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My father taught me that words shape people as the hammer shapes iron. Leaders bend religions to their purposes, and religions in turn bend the people who believe in them.
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I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi-Tea, since I had some fantasy role-players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra to keep him on top of his players.
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It is by degrees of love that we wither or blossom--and I suspect that this holds true in both the giving and receiving.
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People today think ancient Egypt was ineffably cool. I blame this misconception on hieroglyphics and (to a lesser extent) on the Bangles.
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Other people in my life right now, who help me forget all the other people I have buried or lost: They are truly magic for me.
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Turns out that when you kill a god, people want to talk to you.
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The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished.
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I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.>
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His moral compass always points to himself; he is his own true north.
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And to be rooted is not the same thing at all as being tied down. To be rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing.
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You should learn Polish and read Szymborska!
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Orlaith asks as we return to the tree. Germany. You know they have sausages in vending machines there?
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Ignore that guy," I said, pointing down. "He's always intruding on my conversations and poking his head in where he's not wanted."
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Ihave never thought that winds howled so much as moaned. My imagination gives them reasons: They moan because they're weary of their never-ending journey around the globe and are haunted by what they've witnessed--species extinction and coral-reef death and miles of trash floating in the ocean and a strange collection of humans who keep saying the earth is doing just fine, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary.
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In the pattern of the curdling cheese she divined the future, the complex patterns revealing truth to her far more clearly than my wands ever could.
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It comes down to the fact that he serves a different value system than any human one. I pointed out that Gaia was interested in protecting the vitality and variety of life on the whole planet. Broadly speaking that's difficult to argue, because unless you're falling prey to this predator or that, that basic value is pure and good and beneficial to all concerned, if ye take the long and wide view. But humans, I taught him, rarely take that v..
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Greta rolls her eyes. "That's easy. The tax code protects the rich, and lots of voting laws protect a white majority, and arbitration clauses protect corporations from getting sued when they rip people off, and we could go on all day."
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there has to be a way of thinking that will allow us to see nonlethal differences and celebrate them rather than point at them and judge them unworthy. For we seem to be ever running toward dystopias rather than the other way.
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Why aren't you on the coast? he said, making it sound like an accusation. Because I have new mulch for the garden to help us all grow. He snorted in disbelief. Doubtful. You are a dormant seed. I'd been prepared to allow him a thorny word or two because he lost his nephew at the Seeking,but my sympathy evaporated at such a stark insult. I told him he had no nuts in his shell and swung up beyond his voice.
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But in doing so--moving forward, in Greta's mind--he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down: Everyone still knows what we did there.
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I do not see a path I can walk on the earth that is not strewn with beauty and horror in equal measure. My road ahead is poetry and blood, and after today, I know I'm prepared to walk it.
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Eternity is a long time to spend doing nothing, after all.
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Yes, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Bacon is the way and the truth.
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You said he was shot by his own clone troopers?" "That was what his recording said. We, of course, had no way to confirm it. Asking the local garrison of troopers if someone may have shot a Rodian Jedi Knight offplanet would attract the wrong sort of attention. But it's stunning in its implications, isn't it? Looked at in that light, it might have been the Jedi who were betrayed, not the Emperor." Not"
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Whoa! Really? That means practically my whole life is an adventure! I never realized!>
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Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk," I explained to them. "U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it."
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What? You didn't even let me finish my first sentence!" "
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A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord.
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When you cannot reason with people, you have to try scaring them. If that doesn't work, then you either run or you kill them. Or set your lawyers on them.
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The mourning of a loved one never ends at the funeral. It comes back every so often like a stage performer eager for a curtain call and expects you to be loud about it.
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