I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound,...
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Jonathan Swift
Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly." That's ridiculous! " murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch."...
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Harlan Ellison
...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."" Wow that would be terrific, " I said
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Robert Kroese
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By Herman Koch
I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed "a moment to themselves." The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment, and not a minute earlier. I've always thought that was...
Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their mostextreme consequence.
I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there? How many fathers who humiliate their children? How many morons whose breath stinks like rotten meat but who refuse to do anything about it? How many...
… when Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be. My own voice, above all, asking him what he wanted in his sandwich, also sounded as it should have. The larder was full, I had done all of the...
I amazed myself, above all, with how well I was able to manage. Michel got to school on time, his teeth brushed and his clothes clean. More or less clean: I was less critical of a few spots on his trousers than Claire would have...
