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Robert Gustavo
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The gift that we were presenting to Tyndareus stood ready, a beaten-gold mixing bowl embossed with the story of the princess Danae. Zeus had wooed her in a shower of golden light, and she had borne him Perseus, Gorgon-slayer, second only to
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I’m not a master of etiquette, but I would probably not give a man I am trying to impress a bowl depicting a woman being ravaged by the same man who ravished his own wife, whether the ravisher was a man or a god. People get all sensitive about their wives being raped or seduced or violated by godly swans.
Just sayin’
“ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.”
― Better Than Sex
― Better Than Sex
“One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!”
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“The verses which he published in various reviews from time to time, and the neatly copied poems which he sent to his friends, superiors, and important personages, were neither much better nor much worse than thousands of other verse products of the day.”
― Bosnian Chronicle
― Bosnian Chronicle
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
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“The twenty-first century is a terrible time for frog-lovers.”
― I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
― I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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