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Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Time is the fire in which we burn. - Delmore Schwartz

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.

Don't come all the way across town. There's a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I'll meet you there, all right?

I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

io sui ici en liu dami amo' ('I am here in place of a friend love')

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened.

Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt.

Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.

Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

That's the problem with models - they only include the details people think are relevant,

Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said.

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help

She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her,

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Will I ever see you again? No. Do I love you? Yes, for all time.

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

After all, Americans can be terrifying.

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.

Io suuicien lui damo amo," she said softly. "You are here in place of the friends I love.

It cannot rain but it pours." - JONATHAN SWIFT Oh,

what the hell is 'emotional bonding,' anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.

But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off." - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream The

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

Do it on the radio." - Educating Rita Saved

Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

1. Optimize potential.
2. Facilitate empowerment.
3. Implement visioning.
4. Strategize priorities.
5. Augment core structures.

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

maybe I should join It's Only Brunch. It's like JustDinner, but with mimosas.