My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.
Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.
Don't confuse contentment with happiness.
Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.
Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead. . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.
Poison. " he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much. " She's a treasure. " Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. . . . . Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure. " Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.
The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.
We must cling only to drawing.
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.
In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.