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"Essays on the English Renaissance"

"If I were running my business, I'd fire Rosie, I mean, I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers and say, "Rosie, you're fired."

"Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime."

"Boys! Hey boys out there: NEVER kiss a girl unless she says she... wants you to! Alright?!" "Never kiss a girl again. Unless she tells you she wants you to."

"Speech in support of Eliot Cutler in Portland's Monument Square on"

"They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that — playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting."

"We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that."

"Please tell me you're seeing this, too."

"They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway."

"It is the way to educate your eyes, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop."

"Typography cracked the voices of silence."

"Interpretive essay in New Georgia Encyclopedia"

"The myths were... attempting—at a deeper level—to feel the intangible and say the unsayable."

"A Dhomhnall, I have to tell you, you are abolished."

"Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

"Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up."

"The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?"

"They tell me meat is going up, but if I can manage to catch you I'm sure it will soon be going down."

"In a low voice Sara told them about going to the park, seeing a man, and then not paying much attention to him until suddenly he was pushing a gun into her ribs as she unlocked her front door. “He sai…"

"I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real."