“It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
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I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!” — Katherine Givens Copy Share Image
“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations… — Hugh Lamb Copy Share Image
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I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
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Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
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