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A fixed appointment for the immediate future is the gates of hell; the actual evening is hell itself.
without Claire I wouldn’t have been nowhere, but I would have been somewhere else.
When faced with lower intelligences, the most effective strategy in my opinion is to tell a barefaced lie: with a lie, you give the pinheads a chance to retreat without losing face.
As two parts of a happy family, I thought. Of course things had happened, but lately I had been reminded more often of a shipwreck. A happy family can survive a shipwreck. I’m not trying to say that the family will be happier afterwards, but in any case not unhappier.
