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They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
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Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
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How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
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September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.
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Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
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But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
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When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
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A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
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My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.
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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
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But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
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