American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.
“I hope you know me well enough by now to know that I’ve never been interested in conning you into my bed. That was never the way I wanted to have you.”
― Incarnate
― Incarnate
“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history—is lies.”
― Pandora / Vittorio the Vampire
― Pandora / Vittorio the Vampire
“I suppose that’s all life is, in the end. Sustained periods of worry, interrupted here and there by snippets of beauty and light.”
― Awaken
― Awaken
“said Kirby, glad to be off the bircher muesli subject. Anderson had an irrational hatred of the stuff and had ribbed him mercilessly ever since he carelessly mentioned he quite liked it. ‘She had”
― The Bone Jar
― The Bone Jar
“And after all, what did it matter? Everybody died anyway, the good and the bad, the efficients and the weaklings, those that loved to live and those that scorned to live. They passed. Everything passed.”
― The Scarlet Plague
― The Scarlet Plague
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