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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."

"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."

"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."

"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."

"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants' orientation or preference, they have sex for the same reasons and can experience the same array of emotions in the process. But there are three important distinctions to be made: 1. The logistics of physiology 2. The basics of sexual attraction 3. Cultural impact on character and situation."

"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."

"If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle."

"I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough."

"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."

"The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard."

"Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort."

"You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose."

"This is why you use imagery when writing about sex, it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion."

"Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances."
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