I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
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Unknown
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept...
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Jerry Spinelli
Civilization is vastly overrated.
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Patricia Briggs
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Erma Bombeck
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they...
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Daniel Quinn
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and...
Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone, " she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the...
I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman, ' Millie amended. 'An educated woman, ' Ursula agreed.
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
He inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brevets and stripes and ribbon medals and realized they had...
