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I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.

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He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.**Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkey...more

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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Back! Foul best of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it...more

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Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too f...more

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Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is th...more

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No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

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We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

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The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a...more

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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave.""Does she have a grave...more

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What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now yo...more

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There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one...

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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that...more

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Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.