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“Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.”

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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't…

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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit…

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“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own…

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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

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Good music always defeats bad luck

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“I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”

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“Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.”

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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

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“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,…

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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