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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Clearly, Valdez was an apologist for the industrialists and polluters, the big American companies that dominated Costa Rica and other Latin American countries. Not surprising to find such a person...

The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is...

Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov

We can talk in here. Dodgson led him to a glass-walled superintendent's booth, in the center of the building. The glass cut down the sound of the barking. But through the windows, they could look out...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

drinking a Coke and laughing, waving the camera away. That's the couple, Watanabe said. Grace and Bobby

but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience.

Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing

Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

When Ellie shook hands, Gennaro said in surprise, You're a woman. These things happen, she said, and Grant thought: She doesn't like him, either.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

In evolutionary theory, this is called the Red Queen phenomenon," Malcolm said. "Because in Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen tells Alice she has to run as fast as she can just to stay where she is....

Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn't a series...

People who imagined that life on earth consisted of animals moving against a green background seriously misunderstood what they were seeing. That green background was busily alive. Plants grew, moved,...

Isla Nublar, Hammond explained, was not a true island. Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor. Its volcanic origins can be seen all over the island, Hammond...

Emigrate or Degenerate.

There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or someone who wanted to go off and sleep forever because he could not stand...

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

I don't judge, not even myself.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth.I gave up, I whispered.Don't give up, she whispered back.

Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social...

I suspect everybody has a degree of psychic ability, just as a everybody has a degree of athletic or artistic ability. Some people have special gifts; other people have a particular interest that...

They wait out the dry months kind of dead-like, just like everything else, and when the rain comes they wake up and crawl out of the ground and start to holler.

Nobody named Cheerful Charley is tuned in on my wavelength

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.

There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same.

Alone, Malcolm unrolled the strip of paper that had come with the sample. It was a piece of paper torn from a yellow legal pad. In block printing, it said:I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG.

Some media analysts have warned that nothing is checked in the news of today. <>, says a journalist. Another colleague has opined, on condition that his identity is not revealed: <>.

being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.