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Book cover for Of Human Bondage
they could keep order better than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of coffee in the restaurant at Boulogne unless the waiter had known a ...more
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Ambrose Bierce
“APPEAL, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Good Lord, you’re funny, too! Is there anything you aren’t?” “A salesman,” he said.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin
“We’ve outgrown the kind of barbarism that used to bring war into the heart of the high civilizations!”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child the consciousness of such difference is very painful, since, having done nothing yet and being incapable of doing anything, he cannot justify it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin
“She took his arm. He stopped short, as if her touch had electrocuted him on the spot.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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