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I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade him...

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the...

Becoming drunk is a journey that generally elates him in the early stages—he's good company, expansi...

It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineff...

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them ...

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being supe...

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, ...

For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is k...

In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of ...

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is de...

But it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will ...

I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big Peo...

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altoget...

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that rea...

Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seld...

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hil...

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any...

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without osten...

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.

that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Morocca...

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will hap...

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headach...

Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a s...

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had...

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of peopl...

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and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalc...

I left a pause. ‘You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation th...

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its gui...

But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive ...

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you s...

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Ari...

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857,...

Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush fr...

As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone ...

What branch do you want to go in?” “I don’ give a god-damn,” said Pilon jauntily. “I guess we need m...

You keep out of my bed,” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat ...

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and o...

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it...

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the sou...

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, ...

Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us,” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising ...

Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today y...

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it ...

For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped dee...

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It h...

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged...

One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt’s surprise. In the morning they saw...

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be...

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchede...

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually ...

Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that...

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar too...

and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such t...

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, ...

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that ...

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are...

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at get...

Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mam...

followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,

When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of it...

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out ...

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so stran...

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always...

Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is the...

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horse...

the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thiev...

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino sca...

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed o...

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failur...

You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he c...

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insu...

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and repl...

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. Th...

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew somet...

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...

at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental funct...

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can a...