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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.


E.L. Doctorow

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E.L. JAMES I love you and all your kinky fuckery
E.L. JAMES Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou...
E.L. KONIGSBURG I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango.
E.L. JAMES He does, and his eyes shoot to mine, wide and gray, alive with wonder and joy. His lip part in disbe...
E.L. JAMES And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. ...
E.L. JAMES But this is just the start of something much bigger.
CORY DOCTOROW What petulant jerks. Look, Sony, you got caught sleazing your customers' computers. Telling us that ...
CORY DOCTOROW [Has it been a success though, I ask.] I don't know, ... I don't have another first novel that wasn'...
CORY DOCTOROW We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...
CORY DOCTOROW It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it...
CORY DOCTOROW When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
CORY DOCTOROW The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under th...
CORY DOCTOROW Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology ...
CORY DOCTOROW Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
CORY DOCTOROW Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden ...
CORY DOCTOROW I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me....
CORY DOCTOROW I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Never trust a man who can dance.
E.L. JAMES You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince
E.L. JAMES - "Why don't you like to be touched?"
- "Because I'm fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia
E.L. JAMES I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.
E.L. JAMES Men aren't really complicated, Ana, honey. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mea...
E.L. JAMES Are you on your own?"
"No. There are six people staring at me right now wondering who the hell ...
E.L. JAMES You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m se...
E.L. JAMES I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never wa...
E.L. JAMES It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you'r...
E.L. JAMES He tastes of white wine and apple pie and Christian. I run my fingers through his hair, holding him ...
E.L. JAMES ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
E.L. KONIGSBURG Coveralls," I reply, and I know I'm no longer screening what's coming out of my mouth.
He raise...
E.L. JAMES