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“You damn well should feel pleased with yourself, Your Majesty,” frothed Lord Marshal Rucksted, and few men knew more about feeling pleased with themselves than he.
“The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“The wind had teeth today, it bit right through his calfskin jacket. It was a wind unchecked by any serious topography between the Arctic and St. Jude.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“She’s too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There’s much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.”
― Leaven of Malice
― Leaven of Malice
“Lots of people do," said Cobbler, "but don’t delude yourself. You’re not the suicidal type."
"Why not?"
"You’re too gabby. People who talk a lot about their troubles never commit suicide; talk’s the greatest safety-valve there is.”
― Leaven of Malice
"Why not?"
"You’re too gabby. People who talk a lot about their troubles never commit suicide; talk’s the greatest safety-valve there is.”
― Leaven of Malice
“His expression was like a perspectival regression toward a vanishing point of misery.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
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