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In America if you're poor, you're worse than a criminal. You're nobody.
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I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it's time to leave.
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I read about a John Shelby of Thackham, England, who in 1672 was thrown from his horse into a thicket where he found an iron pot containing more than five hundred gold coins. According to the treasure trove laws of England, all hidden or lost property belonged to the Crown. However, Shelby refused to give the gold to the king's officers, and he was arrested, tried for treason, and beheaded. This was probably a favorite story of the IRS.
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We're all
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A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As
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I thought again of how Tobin had already killed five good people and was about to be the cause of two more dying. I couldn't believe that this little turd had actually caused all this death and misery. The only explanation I had for it was that short people with beady eyes and big appetites were ruthless and dangerous.
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Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
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war
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Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There's no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.
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The guy did okay for himself.
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Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.
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murder
humor
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The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of the soul and psyche; it was an ancient communion with every man who ever faced battle and death, and who stood with his comrades, but stood alone, with his own thoughts and his own fears, waiting for the signal to meet the enemy, and to meet himself.
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never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.
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But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.
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When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way."
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concurring.' But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are
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I know who didn't kill her." "Don't"
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and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.
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When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Buck next brought up the subject of the
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of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently
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asked me,
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Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I
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USIS
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there are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is cynicism, there are dreams that can come true, and dreams that can't. And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world..
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This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up."
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A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex ac..
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sex
romance
science
humor
life
love
wisdom
inspirational
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lust
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Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
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You don't bother to hate what you think is contemptible.
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Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.
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We are finding it- first in our heads, then in our hearts." He reminded Purcell. "This is a spiritual journey before it becomes a physical journey." --
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arms, and the other pulled the camera from
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Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,"
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There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were...well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.
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experienced
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Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery
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As he'd thought, and as he'd always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry-- and hurt-- he was also concerned about Vivian. He still liked Henry, but not as much as Henry liked himself. He would have told Vivian this-- as a friend-- but she might think it was coming from a jealous ex-lover. So he wasn't going to say anything now.
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possible they
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And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world as the future starts to look more and more like someplace you don't want to be.
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Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
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As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
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Most accidents, I'm convinced, are God's way of getting rid of stupid people. Or if you believe in Darwinism, you wonder why there are any stupid people left in the world. Well, I guess they can reproduce before they remove themselves from the gene pool.
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Definitely a bit sassy. Maybe I bring that out in women. I advised her,
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There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!
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Buck thanked the sheik and his trusted
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