Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and …
Oh, you could do it all by magic, you certainly could. You could wave a wand and get twinkly stars and a fresh-baked loaf. You could make fish jump out of the sea already cooked. And then, somewhere, somehow, magic would present its bill, which was always more than you could afford.
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and …
You think about money in the old-fashioned way. Money is not a thing, it is not even a process. It is a kind of shared dream. We dream that a small disc of common metal is worth the price of a substantial meal. Once you wake up from that dream, you can swim in a sea of money.”
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and …
He also found a mention of Dave’s Pin Exchange, up in Dolly Sisters, in an alley between a house of negotiable affection and a massage parlor. It bought and sold pins to pin fanciers.
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and …
The broom must have been kept as an ornament, because it certainly hadn’t been used much on the accumulations in the stable yard. On the positive side, this meant he had fallen into something soft. On the negative side, it meant that he had fallen into something soft.
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and …
There is a saying, “You can’t fool an honest man,” which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men
Overdoing is also falling short.
— Auberon by James S. A. Corey
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the …
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly …
The jellyfish may point to a deeper problem with lava moats.
— How To by Randall Munroe
When we thought of language like a book, perhaps it was natural that we were worried and careful about what we enshrined in it. But now that we can think of language like the internet, it’s clear that there is space for innovation, space for many Englishes and many other languages besides, space for linguistic playfulness and creativity. There’s space, in this glorious linguistic web, for you.
Our modern, Western notion that authorship should be solo and original is comparatively young and culturally bound, dating back only to after we had the ability to make faithful and exact copies at a mass scale.
researchers have found that people who read a lot of fiction are better at understanding mental states than those who read primarily nonfiction or don’t read at all.
