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If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Albert Einstein wrote, 'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from...

The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado.

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

This utopian notion of a sexuality freed from heterosexual constructs, a sexuality beyond sex, failed to acknowledge the ways in which power relations continue to construct sexuality for women even...

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

something." Of course! he thought. He had touched the screen. It was a touch screen! The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors. Tim had never seen such a screen, but he'd read about...

Like our padded cell?" He poked the insulated walls. "It's like living in a vagina.

She reminded him of {...} all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy...

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Oh my God," my husband said with a gasp, reading further. "He beat three men into unconsciousness? Alone? What is this, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Rapist? Does he fly and run across treetops? How long...

Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

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I understand why people play {soccer}. ... I even learned how to talk the game. It was the opposite of trash talking-tidy talking. I suppose you'd have to call it. If you did something good, it was...

I purse my lips in aggravation. Of all the places to spend the summer, my parents have chosen here. My mother, the socialite, has chosen to spend her summer a million miles away from the designer...

quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

The anger I'd had, everything, was gone, and kissing her reminded me, again, that she was right. We were connected to each other. She was the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins; she was my whole...

Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

But I am designed to last forever, said the expendable, if not interfered with.Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish....

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.

The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the...

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.

When she left the store, emboldened, receipt tucked into her purse, folded twice, Janet thought of all the chicken dishes she had not sent back even though they were either half-raw or not what she...

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.