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It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.
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There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
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Stuff that I hadn't thought of. It was stuff the designers had thought of, and they got right.
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Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.