More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
wondered what she would say when she smelled all that booze on him. “Oh, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy — ” she said, “you’ve got too much aftershave lotion on again.”
What a great way to quickly show her naivety and portray her father as a liar
his wristwatch, and his cuff links.
Is this a known saying? He's used it in two consecutive stories
and we wouldn’t have killed a high-school teacher while trying to put her into orbit,
My fourth grade teacher told me she was her best friend. What a tragedy
I asked him once what he believed to be the basic flaw in the character of Germans, and he replied “obedience.”
The Italians back in the 1920s and earlier seemed as non-white to this country’s ruling class as Indians. And so seemed Greeks and Jews and Spaniards and Portuguese.
The Irish as well before that
Hitler was virtually as celibate as the last Tasmanian,
Is this true? Seems like the same sort of thing you'd hear about North Korean leaders
It is also not true that the Nazis made soap and candles of fat rendered from the corpses of concentration-camp victims.
It's just too sensational to be true
We are incorrigibly the nastiest of all animals, as our history attests, and that is that. ***
This is only because we do not hold animals to our own moral standards. To assume any animal with our level of intelligence and social standards would do differently is ridiculous
Two other men from Ohio invented the flying machine. But I don’t believe we should be grateful to them.
Right because the planes are only ever used as weapons. Ridiculous
a Canadian friend, a filmmaker who says that the planet can feed only six billion mammals our size, provided that the nourishment is fairly divided among us and delivered at once to anyone about to starve to death.
He was wrong
