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'Why should Nature put right what man has messed up?'

'You would not supply teeth to tigers or venom to snakes; you would not light fires under a volcano or breach flood-protection dams.'

'As its tyranny was finally beginning to crumble against the revolutionary elan of the class-consciousness proletariat, moth-eaten capitalism roped you.'

'Behold the beautifully setting sun,' I said to my wife.
'Is it not as though the entire firmament were drowning in a flood of gold and blood?'

'Who cares if they are newts. So long as they're not Marxists.'

'Evening after evening he would sort out and read his cuttings under the indulgent eyes of Mrs Povondra, who knew that every man was partly a nutcase and partly a little boy.'

'An instinctive male vanity and aggressiveness -- wish to maintain at least the appearance of sexual conquest and therefore play-act amorous wooing and conjugal ownership.'