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I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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His grammar is foolishly correct, offensively precise. It flaunts itself in the reader's face all along, and struts and smirks and shows off, and is in a dozen ways irritating and disagreeable. To be serious, I write good grammar myself, but not in that spirit, I am thankful to say. That is to say, my grammar is of a high order, though not at the top. Nobody's is. Perfect grammar persistent, continuous, sustained is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.
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For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.
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Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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No man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent, freely given.
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We've all got massive egos, my dear.
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it: keep going, keep going come what may.
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He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.
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