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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

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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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“As far as the eye can see the infertile desert lies in the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless waste strown with the bones of luckless wayfarers. . .”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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

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“BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“In the night one of them cried out aloud, dreaming. The other one reached his arm out sleepily, muttering reassurance, and the blind warm weight of his touch outweighed all fear.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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“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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