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"Winning children are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want."

"Illness as Metaphor" Susan Sontag's only play: Alice in Bed"

"I know what the two of you are here for," Vlasov rasped. "You're going to try and talk me into sucking the Americans' cocks." "No, Comrade General, no. Nothing like that," Shteinberg said soothingly. …"

"The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry … is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood s…"

"In Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography, she talks about how someone was asking her what it’s like to come back to her childhood home in Oakland, where I also come from, and she says, “There is no there …"

"Now smoking would be okey if when you sucked it in, you kept it in."

"It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening."

"Official homepage 2005 version"

"It's like Kilroy only talking about Big Brother and there's no racism allowed."

"In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force."

"Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains. The radi…"

"After this Alexander left Dareius's mother, his daughters, and his son in Susa, providing them with persons to teach them the Greek language, and marching on with his army on the fourth day reached th…"

"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you."

"His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance."

"Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson are the greatest English critics of their respective centuries not least because they are the funniest."

"What was I talking about? Can you remember, eh? What? Shut the fuck up, I'm talking to someone! Button your cardigan, I can see your cleavage."

"Profile of Vachel Lindsay from "I Hear America Singing" , hosted by Thomas Hampson"

"Landry, Donna. "Bentley, Elizabeth ." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004."

"We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away"

"Religious belief, trust, a sense of connection to the universe — no matter what you call it, there is a spiritual component to strong families. They see their lives as imbued with purpose, reflected i…"