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Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case. — Eliza Leslie

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. — Keith Senior

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. — Howard Rheingold

If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences. — Leonard Peltier

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer. — Zinedine Zidane

And when you speak with him," I said, "tell him to stop hitting his wife." Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. "It is his Christian duty," he said stiffly, "to discipline his wife, and it is her duty to submit. Did you not listen to what I preached? — Bernard Cornwell

It was still quite motionless and he felt it with his fingers; it was dead. Accustomed, no doubt, to an uneventful existence, to a humble life spent beneath its poor carapace, it had not been able to bear the dazzling splendor thrust upon it, the glittering cope in which it had been garbed, the gems with which its back had been encrusted, like a ciborium. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? — Tim O'Brien

Everything happens for a reason it is your choice to move on and live your life. — Chasidy Merlos

I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire. — Rachel Cohn