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• Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense
  everyone can talk sense- can he talk nonsense? -- William Pitt the Elde...
• What I want for the 1990's is to see demilitarisation of Europe and the survival of Salman Rushdie to a ripe old age.
• One good thing about being a man is that men don't have to talk each other.
• Imagine the real disappointment of those people who have been wrong in their predictions about the end of the world.
  Talk about embarrassment......
• How many Islamic fundamentalists -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  300 million --- one to take out the old one, the rest to look for Salman Rushdie in the dark....
• The book, "The Satanic Verses"] is obviously not only offensive but, I would think most of us would say, in bad taste.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle commenting on the book which caused Salman Rushdie to be placed under a death sentence....
• A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about yourself.
• A book is the product of a contract with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie.
  Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of powe...
• T]he lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of value
  hat those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly...