“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”
― Leaves of Grass
[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”
― Leaves of Grass
“On second thought, it's unlikely that anybody can teach another to excel in bed. Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.”
― Villa Incognito
― Villa Incognito
“I wondered if I could get him to stop saying it if I slapped him a few times. But such logical and rewarding actions are discouraged in the workplace, even when they make perfect sense,”
― Dexter's Final Cut
― Dexter's Final Cut
“Your voice is familiar,” said Barry. “I couldn’t place it and then I realized you sound like the guy in my dreams. Which sounds very different than I intended out loud.”
― Ex-Purgatory
― Ex-Purgatory
“There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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