“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“I couldn't remember the cats' names any better than the dogs'. Four of them were named after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and all I could really recall was that Famine ironically weighed about thirty pounds.”
― Thorn Queen
― Thorn Queen
“The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason
“Chomsky's writings are 'classics' in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”
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