I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.
Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen.
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
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