Vengeance is mine”, saith the lord, “but only if Gwen leaves me any.
Random’ and ‘chance’ are not related. ‘Random chance’ is a nonsense expression.
We lived here a while. No annex then, had to have an armed guard just to pee.
By the sixties everyone talked about his “rights” and no one spoke of his duties – and patriotism was a subject for jokes.
Look, kids, I’ve seen every possible type of joy house and pleasure dome. Happiness is in the heart, not in that stuff.
Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow.
Seems a funny way to run things. But of course I’ve never paid taxes.” “You just think you haven’t. You started the day you were born. We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.
On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Serbia, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated. He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an otherwise useless piece of royalty, and to this day I have never been able to understand why this event could cause Germany to invade Belgium a month later. I.
Go ahead and cry. Tears are lubricant for the soul. Males would be better off if they cried as easily as women.
Satan, receive my soul; Jesus is a fink.
Well, we shoot mad dogs, don’t we?
We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.
I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe.
It’s much safer to break a law knowingly than to do so through ignorance.
Just as this free-lance socialist was gathering up their day’s receipts, Joe lets him have it, with a cleaver. Curtain. The only notable thing about it was that Joe acted so quickly and correctly in the crunch, for I feel sure that the only fighting that he had ever tried was that which I forced on him in the ‘Libby.
Joe did everything else properly, too – finished taking the head off, threw the body into the street for his friends to take away if he had any, for the scavengers to remove if not – then displayed the head in front of the shop on a spike meant for such purpose. Then he closed his shutters and cleaned up the mess – then may have taken time to throw up;.
Boss, there ain’t no such animal as a well-documented conspiracy.
A man isn’t a collection of chemical reactions, he is a collection of ideas.
Joe was a gentle soul. But it’s seven to two that Llita did not throw up. “The city’s committee for public safety voted Joe the usual reward, and the street committee passed the hat and added to it; a cleaver against a gun rated special notice. Good advertising for Estelle’s Kitchen but not important otherwise, save that the kids could use that money.
Mike puts us into trance, pours language – definitions, idioms, concepts – into us for moments that feel like hours... then we dictate at once what he has poured into us, while it’s still fresh. But it can’t be just anybody. It requires a sharp accent and the ability to join trance rapport and then spill out the results. Sam, for example, has everything but the accent – he manages, God knows how, to speak Martian with a Bronx accent. Can’t use him, it would cause endless errata.