They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary. Lucian Of Samosata
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
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P.g. Wodehouse
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
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George Orwell
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
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Martin Amis
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Matt Groening
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Ambrose Bierce
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