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“Let me tell you this, when social workers offer you, free, gratis and for nothing, something to hinder you from swooning, which with them is an obsession, it is useless to recoil, they will pursue you to the ends of the earth, the vomitory in their hands. The Salvation Army is no better. Against the charitable gesture there is no defence, that I know of. You sink your head, you put out your hands all trembling and twined together and you say, Thank you, thank you lady, thank you kind lady. To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
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“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”
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“Morning to ye! Morning to ye!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Zzt motioned with the blaster barrel. 'Why don't you just walk out of here and have a nice crap.”
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“His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children.”
― Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
― Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
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