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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."
"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
"All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them."
"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
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"Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. " ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH."
"No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?"
"When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone-'I didn't mean to startle her."
"Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter."
"Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence."
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