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Neythen looked perplexed. 'My mum always said I'm named after a saint, not an illness.' 'Which one?' 'Well he had his head chopped off, see? And then he picked it up and carried it down the road a time. All the way back home, I think.' 'Messy,' Piers...

When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories ma...

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse....

Peter O'Toole

Well finish your story anyway." Where was I?" The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses." Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could do to find a live patient to treat. In bed afte...

Kurt Vonnegut

And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I can be a lot of happy things at the same time), It’s only because I feel what I write at sunset, Or when a cloud passes its hand over the lig...

The Keeper of Sheep

Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of them, an earnest type, started asking the questio...

Flannery O'Connor

Richard Scruggs: I know what you're facing, Jeff. And, I think I know how you're feeling. In the Navy I flew A-6's off carriers. In combat, events have a duration of seconds, sometimes minutes. But what you're going through goes on day in and day out...

The Insider

Alain van Versch: [after having sex with Stéphanie for the first time] Was it good? It still works? Stéphanie: Yes. No... I don't know... It's different. It's hard to say after just one... Alain van Versch: Yeah but I can't now. I have to go. Stép...

Rust and Bone

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

In the Company of the Courtesan

Why not surround yourself with things that make you content? After all, there's no place like home.

Champagne and Lemon Drops

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The Complete Essays

Love happens only once, what happens after that is just compromise; with your heart and with your life...

Chained: Can you escape fate?

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

The Cold Cold Ground

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

Come What May

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Of Christmas Present

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

Child of Storm

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Life was a little like that, I guess. We’d spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead.

Chasing Trains

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

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