“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” ― G.K. Chesterton

There's sure some sort of hoodoo on these Antarctic expeditions

They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.

Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth?

The spaceport was nearly empty. In fact, Jack was not 100% sure there was any other organic life currently at this spaceport.

They could see one another, but it was impossible for them to make their voices heard above the rasping of the beetles' legs.

On the day of the next full moon every living thing on earth will be wiped out of existence

From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house.

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And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly with great sweeps of the ax.

It was now two years since Edwin Leland bought the estate for a song and took up his residence in the gloomy old house.

Isaac Asimov, a visionary in the realm of science fiction, unknowingly pioneered modern prompt engineering through his thought-provoking robot series.

The engines of the Almirante Gomez were going dead slow. Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally

IT was a wicked night, the night I met the man who had died.

There was a dull muttering in the sky to the east, and a speck appeared, drew nearer swiftly, grew larger, and became a small army biplane.

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EVERY great religion has as its psychological reason for existence the mission of compensating for some crying, unsatisfied human need.

"Suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, one of the men on guard was jerked into the air feet upwards."

The inquest into the mysterious death of Darius Darrow, savant, inventor, recluse and eccentric, resembled a scientific convention.

“Now to God the Father, God the Son——”

Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.

We had been captured by a race of gigantic beetles.

The delivery of his country into the clutches of a merciless, ultra-modern religion can be prevented only by Dr. Hagstrom's deciphering an extraordinary code.

Row after row of the monsters roared by, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.

The structure, pivoting downward, plunged Quest to his waist in the osmotic solution.

To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war....

Thomas Harris' best work explores the dark and twisted inner of the human mind.

“Behold one of those who live in the darkness.”

He came to Princhester an innocent and trustful man.

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The laboratory was a small room of board walls, board ceiling and floor. Windowless, with a single door opening into the cellar of the apartment house.

We have information, Johnson––there’s some under cover plot here aboard. I want to know what it is.

The first tremor that set the timbers of the house to creaking brought Garry Connell out of his bunk and into the middle of the floor.

He drew her to him, whispered in her ear, and kissed her.

There came another silence. “It's all gone so differently,” she said. “Everything has gone so differently.”

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The wind had gone down with the light, and so the snow had come on. It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick.

A “Works of Fiction Disclaimer” that embodies the concept of having some entertainment value in addition to its desired “suitability to purpose”:

Incredible! Impossible! I did not say it, though my thoughts were written on my face, no doubt.

There were no means known to Tommy of reckoning time in that strange place of twilight. His watch had been broken in the airplane fall

Ah, if only he could have foreseen it—but then, he would have foreseen it, if he had not been a fool!

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How long he had remained unconscious, Tommy had no means of determining.

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Dennis and Mac had been driving for almost a week, and they hadn’t seen a single soul. They were worried. When they’d left the ranch, they’d thought maybe they’d run into someone, another survivor. But there was no one. The roads were almost empty. There was the occasional abandoned car, but that was it. They drove mostly on highways, to make better time. Mac wondered if they might not have better luck on the smaller country roads, but Dennis wouldn’t have it. Those roads had curves and were thick with trees. There was no way of seeing danger coming. If someone wanted to spring a surprise on you, you wouldn’t know it until it was too late.

MANY of my readers will remember the mysterious radio messages which were heard by both amateur and professional short wave operators during the night

IT came suddenly, without warning, and it brought consternation to the people of the world.

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His definition of Prejudice impressed White as being the most bloodless and philosophical formula that ever dominated the mind of a man.

“Tu, nisi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave.”

Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

Jim Dodd, the young archaeologist of the party, could be seen apparently wrestling with something that looked like a suit of armor.

Under the glass portcullis of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk.

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First, AI knows how to drive. Now, they know how to write. When are they going to learn to cut my lawn or add in morally dubious scenes into my movies?

This news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed.

“My faith in God grows,” he said.

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I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of absence for a short time

Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon—only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong

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“It’s perfectly splendid. Of all the fine weather the best has been kept for now. My last day. My very last day.”

A letter dated January,1918 written by Monsignor Darcy to Amory, who is a second lieutenant in the 171st Infantry, Port of Embarkation, Camp Mills, Long Island

The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.

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The man to whom I spoke was a scientist. He replied gently, "My boy, when you are grown older and wiser you will realize that nothing is impossible."

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“It is not the poverty I fear,” said Lady Ella.

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There comes out of the cloud, our house—not new to me, but quite familiar, in its earliest remembrance.

A terrific force was emanating from that devilish globe above.

I heard what he said. You shall not die. We shall go away to your place, where there are no beetles to eat us

“You are, I perceive, cycling through this delightful country,” said the clergyman.

All this was a thing apart from the rest of my life, a locked avoided chamber....

Tom Forsythe, the only son of an old recluse, moved in to a secluded laboratory in the woods.

Kael watched a clip of a protest in Minneapolis from 2026.

"I wish to show those of you who failed to see it the sinking of the Stellar, on which I was a passenger and, I believe, the only survivor."

Nathan Baugh goes over 10 Psychology tricks to improve your storytelling ability.

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth

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The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.

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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worthwhile.

The Knickerbocker Bar, beamed upon by Maxfield Parrish’s jovial, colorful “Old King Cole,” was well crowded.

It's my mind, hazy. The air is cold like winter snow. It is this, this now, that causes me to drift...

We were going on some mysterious cruise to the South Seas, the details of which I did not know.

If you want to see what 2050 could be like, prepare to be blown away by the coherent science in this article.

We have AI at our fingertip to use for software development. But hardly anyone uses it. What could go wrong?

BENDA conducted me personally to a room very much like an ordinary hotel room.

I returned to my own world. And Derek stayed in his. Each to his own; one may rail at this allotted portion—but he does not lightly give it up.

Hope murmured. "The three-part music comes first. There will first be the spiritual."

We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was quite wet through, when the carrier stopped short.

Like pitiless jaws, a distant crater opened for their ship.

A gripping tell of a sentient AI helper that holds a dark secret over it's human owner.

From the first moment of her dark eyes resting on me, I saw she knew I was the bearer of evil tidings.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll.

I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.

She did not once show me any change in herself. What she always had been to me, she still was; wholly unaltered.

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What the hell is a áswetséwet? it is a Cahuilla word for eaglesnake. It is another name for Quetzalcoatl.

I have one of the weirdest cases on my hands that I have ever been mixed up in...

“GOOD GOD, what was that?” Dr. Frank’s face had gone white in the starlight. Snap stood like a statue of horror.

"Did you really make that up yourself?" said Mrs Jehoram, sparkling her eyes at him, "as you went along. Really, it is wonderful! Nothing less than wonderful."

Thirty thousand of these pieces he handled every day, nine or ten million every year—how many in a lifetime it rested with the gods to say.

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I think I was first conscious of a queer calmness which had settled upon me, as though now I had withdrawn contact with the turmoil of our world!

The gate closes upon him with a slam, and he vanishes from our ken.

I try to stay my tears, and to reply, ‘Oh, Dora, love, as fit as I to be a husband!’

You could buy an RPG on the open web for less than two months of personal browser history...

THEY waited two days at Settler's Station. To push along the line into the desert would have been useless, both men were convinced that an airplane would arrive

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The river of sound he decided to be the sound of a vibrational explosion of some sort.

"The lunatic! Very likely. These half-witted people.... My dear, I don't think I shall ever forget that dreadful encounter. Yesterday."

So it was Lewisham enrolled his first ally in the cause of the red tie—of the red tie and of the Greatness that was presently to come.

Robert Thorpe seeks out the nameless horror that is sucking all human life out of ships in the South Pacific.

Some kinds of reading - such as science fiction - can allow us to reflect on who we are as we develop empathy for the characters.

The ultimate justification for assembling and using on-line data-acquisition systems must be made in terms of research output.

“His heart failed him.

And now my written story ends. I look back, once more—for the last time—before I close these leaves.

“Pretty, pretty, pretty—that is our business. What man hesitates in the choice? He goes his own way, thinks his own thoughts, does his own work ...

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A critical little girl eyed our couple curiously and made some remark to her ragamuffin friend.

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“Beastly cheap, after all, this suit does look, in the sunshine.”

Fate throws two young Earthians into desperate conflict with the primeval monsters of an electron's savage jungles.

A bug bounty hunter finds an IDOR vuln in a major tax portal, exposing millions of financial records. A story about privacy, ethics, and the HTTP protocol.

It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance. In this, no time was to be lost.

She still scarcely realises, you see, the scrape she has got into.

I was trembling. Everything depended upon me now. I must get up into the tower. And, above everything, haste was necessary.

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If it had been Aladdin’s palace, roc’s egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.

WE kept, on the Planetara, always the time and routine of our port of departure.

Life was a struggle for existence, and the strong overcame the weak, and in turn were overcome by the strongest.

As if, in love, joy, sorrow, hope, or disappointment; in all emotions; my heart turned naturally there, and found its refuge and best friend.

There was no use hiding from the truth. Somebody had blundered—a fatal blunder—and they were going to pay for it!

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They were beaten; they had lost the game, they were swept aside.

I shall go every day on purpose to see that the operation is not a failure.

So, ingloriously, ended the Angel's first and last appearance in Society.

A sneering chuckle broke from Bram's lips. "Yes, it's me, James Dodd," he answered. "I'm a little surprised to see you here, Dodd, but I'm mighty glad."

Her head was a little to one side, in the attitude of one who listens intently.

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“Your servant, your most humble helper in God (your God),

“Unspeakable cad! My dear girl! Possible I AM an unspeakable cad. Who wouldn't be—for you?”

Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service records another of his thrilling interplanetary assignments.

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That is as much as anyone can tell you of the glare upon Sidderford Moor and the alleged music therewith.

The very wide range of types of data-acquisition equipment in use necessarily contributes to the spread in DAS costs.

A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.

With regard to labor costs, government laboratory people seem to be in a much better position to supply figures than are university people.

‘Good-bye for ever. Now, my dear, my friend, good-bye for ever in this world.

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This is a fairy tale about a mysterious girl named Alice who discovers a powerful tool called ChatGPT in an enchanted forest.

They did not look round, and he kept them just within sight, getting down if he chanced to draw closely upon them round a corner.

As Crump would tell you, people do not do that kind of thing unless there is something wrong with the nervous system.

"Mr Hilyer, I protest. I know. Not anything you can say will alter my opinion one jot. Don't try. I never suspected you were nearly such an interesting man."

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"All kinds of artists, Angels with wonderful imaginations, who invent men and cows and eagles and a thousand impossible creatures."

It was never really quiet on the ship. There was always some noise, some vibration to be felt even with the ship's precision mechanisms. Nonetheless Sensei had

“Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger….

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“I am pleased that you long for your home again. You have served me so faithfully, that I myself will take you up again.”

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"This—ahem—gentleman," said the Vicar, "or—ah—Angel"—the Angel bowed—"is suffering from a gunshot wound."

FOR a long moment Sarka looked broodingly out across the world beyond the metalized glass which formed the curving dome of his laboratory roof.

THE great discovery came when a box was brought to the dingy room and Mr. Collins was asked to show what was inside it.

And now the bird threw down to her a dress which was more splendid and magnificent than any she had yet had, and the slippers were golden.

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters—giants of the ray!

‘Now’s the day, and now’s the hour, See the front of battle lower, See approach proud EDWARD’S power— Chains and slavery!

Well, if you lived in Europe in 1490, and someone told you the earth was round and moved around the sun—that would have been an "astounding" story.

He was pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand’s experienced fellow-townsman, as “that beast Lewisham—awful swat.

In due time, Mr. Micawber’s petition was ripe for hearing; and that gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the Act, to my great joy.

“A mother's love,” she said. “I bear her THAT.”

"A little while ago I was a little pink baby."

So soon as the Angel had passed, one of the three hummed this tune in an aggressive tone.

“My charm of manner, I suppose. But, indeed, he’s very human.”

I think if I had yielded to the impulse of my heart, I would have poured out all those protestations of a lover’s ecstasy

"I did not mean to offend you, but I meant just to give Molly a hint. She understands what I mean."

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"Dear me!" said the Vicar. "I had no idea." He came forward cautiously. "Excuse me," he said, "I am afraid I have shot you."

I saw, in my aunt’s face, that she began to give way now, and Dora brightened again, as she saw it too.

Matthew Cuthbert and the sorrel mare jogged comfortably over the eight miles to Bright River.

“Dreams like mine—abilities like mine. Yes—any man! And yet ...—The things I meant to do!”

A short story about multisensory technologies, artificial intelligence, and the challenging quest for authentic experiences.

"The fact is," said the Vicar, "this is no world for Angels."

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That airplane of the slanted wings, the bulbous, almost bulletlike fuselage, what of it?

Involuntarily I halted at the entrance to my snug bachelor quarters as the flood of light my turning of the switch produced revealed a huddled figure.

Never in my life had I seen my father cry. It was like finding out that super heroes could bleed.

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I DID not appear at that morning meal. I was exhausted and drugged with lack of sleep.

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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not whiten this little hand."

IT WAS shortly after that mid-day meal when I encountered Venza sitting on the starlit deck.

Of the 46 system reports, 35 were sufficiently complete to be useful in a detailed analysis.

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In this interview, I speak to author Michael Woudenberg on the potential implication Artificial Intelligence could possibly have on Fiction Writing.

Bullets, shrapnel, shell—nothing can stop the trillions of famished, man-sized beetles which, led by a madman, sweep down over the human race.

There was a gasp. The audience sat frozen. On the stage, with no one lifting a hand to stop her, the crimson murderess made a leap and vanished.

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Dr. Bird discovers a dastardly plot, amazing in its mechanical ingenuity, behind the apparently trivial eye trouble of the President.

I am well aware of all the inconveniences arising for the reader from this difficulty, but I know of no way to avoid them.

I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days drew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong’s.

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It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.

Who could doubt that she was a help?

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According to an unwritten law, the buying a drink included the privilege of loafing for just so long; then one had to buy another drink or move on.

“You may die like a madman,” he said, “but you won't die like a tame rabbit.”

And when he could shout no more he still stood there, gasping, and whispering hoarsely to himself: “By God! By God! By God!”

Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day’s work was done, went out together to fly the great kite.

Where Mike explains to Ana and Olivia that Hal Finney has been cryopreserved.

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She spoke at last with an effort. “That it hurts me,” she said, and grimaced and stopped again.

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“I'll be level with you yet,” ran like a plough through the soil of his thoughts.

“Unromantic fiddlesticks!” said the unsympathetic Marilla. “Anne is a real good plain sensible name. You’ve no need to be ashamed of it.”

Her callings are domestic and sympathetic, she watches over a cradle or assists a sister soul heavenward.

This proceeding in some occult way led to the purchase of a note-book and pencil, and that started the conception of an artist taking notes.

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There was an instant when I stood numbed, fumbling for a weapon at my belt, undecided whether to run or stand my ground.

In a world where consciousness itself is under threat, two friends must grapple with the unimaginable as they confront a calamity.

At that the autobiography stopped short, and the intercalary note began.

My spirits sank under these words, and I became very downcast and heavy of heart.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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I stood listening to their vehement, half-whispered words. For a moment or two, absorbed, they ignored me.

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"Oh! in return for things I do for him, you know. We go in for division of labour in this world. Exchange is no robbery."

Ann Veronica had an impression that she did not sleep at all that night, and at any rate she got through an immense amount of feverish feeling and thinking.

Exploring machine understanding of story dialogue via new tasks and dataset, improving coherence and speaker recognition in storytelling AI.

“I will do what has to be done.”

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I never saw a man so hot in my life. I tried to calm him, that we might come to something rational; but he got hotter and hotter, and wouldn’t hear a word.

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In this interview, Troy Denning talks about how he became an author, his experience as a game designer, and some things to look forward to in Halo: Outcasts.

He had in his hand too large a projector. Its ray would kill me. If he wanted to take me alive, he would not fire. I chanced it.

“You, our King?” cried the birds angrily. “You have done this by trick and cunning!”

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I stood on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Dr. Frank, watching the arriving passengers...

I read the telegram for the second time. Then I folded it up, put it in my pocket, and pressed the little button on my desk. My mind was made up.

In Figure 14 the cost of the standard I/O equipment is shown plotted against the cost of the CPU for 36 different systems.

I have often remarked—I suppose everybody has—that one’s going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for change in it.

Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself.

“I saw you yesterday. And I rode over to see you.” I had now come close to her, and stood looking up into her face.

The word remained like a little ash after a flare.

‘You will find her,’ pursued my aunt, ‘as good, as beautiful, as earnest, as disinterested, as she has always been.

I introduce myself, begging grace that I intrude upon your busy minutes, with my only excuse that perhaps I may amuse you.

The Singularity Syndicate is a clandestine alliance of tech giants that has created a distributed, extraterrestrial data vault. The Singularity Core is a zettab

Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.

"If these are angels," said the Angel, "then I have never been in the Angelic Land."

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The surface of the Earth was one vast building, like a hive, and to each human being was allotted by law a certain abiding place.

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He saw that Vasya had on his very best trousers and a very clean shirt front. That, of course, struck him.

I had advanced in fame and fortune, my domestic joy was perfect, I had been married ten happy years.

It was one of my uncle's profoundest remarks that human beings are the only unreasonable creatures.

HE sat in a small half-darkened booth well over in the corner—the man with the strangely glowing blue-green eyes.

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Then came a letter which plunged abruptly into criticism.

The correct strategy to employ in every case should be consistent with the size of the laboratory and with the capabilities of its staff.

At last he fell a-yawning so much that very reluctantly indeed he set about finishing this great and splendid day.

All the balance of his life he had done nothing but try to make it understood.

He groaned and turned over and repeated the words: “A kind of magic world—not really real!”

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“The first thing I began to read again,” said Mrs. Garstein Fellows, “—I'm not saying it for your sake, Bishop—was the Bible.”

Then the Servant grew terribly frightened, and signed to the Doctor to come outside.

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“I’m damned if he overrides it,” said Lewisham, under his breath.

Marable, in a desperate frenzy, hacked at the reptile's awful head.

His honest face, as he looked at me with a serio-comic shake of his head, impresses me more in the remembrance than it did in the reality.

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I could not get over this farewell glimpse of them for a long time.

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I dreamt first of states and cities and political things when I was a little boy in knickerbockers.

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All life had turned to rottenness and stench in them—love was a beastliness, joy was a snare, and God was an imprecation.

I realized that he could not be aware we knew he was the murderer.

The whole illimitable place teemed with suggestions of indefinite and sometimes outrageous possibility, of hidden but magnificent meanings.

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“I'm not a-going to tell all my secrets to any one who comes at me,” said Hoopdriver. “Not Likely.” And added fiercely, “And that I tell you, sir.”

“You've got to do the thing you can,” he said, after a pause, “and likely it's what you're fitted for.”

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Jurgis started. “I—I—” he stammered. “Is it Socialism? I didn’t know. I want to know about what you spoke of—I want to help. I have been through all that.”

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Whether the watchmen came in to see a ghost of me lying there on the floor I did not know, nor did I care. I whirled into the shadows.

The beginning of the quarrel was trivial enough.

He looked about him in a puzzled way. "I had a kind of vision while you were playing. I seemed to see——. What did I see? It has gone."

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One day I was informed by Mr. Mell that Mr. Creakle would be home that evening.

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"It is just possible," he said to himself rather than to the Angel, and began another piece of silence.

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The oldest novel in the world at any rate, White reflected, was a story with a hero and no love interest worth talking about.

He adopted an urban style of dressing with the onset of Tono-Bungay and rarely abandoned it.

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“I suppose pride and self-assertion are sin? Sinned against heaven—Yes, I have sinned against heaven and before thee....

Lewisham growled, went from page 1 to page 3—conscious of their both looking to him now—even intensely—and discovered Chaffery in a practical vein.

Hope approached him and knelt. Derek and I could hear their voices, although the babble of the crowd went on.

“But—but—” stammered Jurgis. He had somehow taken it for granted that he should go out with his union. “The packers need good men, and need them bad,”

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The girls could see that their mother concealed a great deal from them, and left out large pieces of the letter in reading it to them.

At the thought of that new life together that was drawing so near, she came into his head, vivid and near and warm....

"I suppose I must let you go," she said. "Oh! I'd hate you not to go...."

In the darkness on the table something faintly luminous, a greenish-white patch, stirred and hopped slowly among the dim shapes.

In such a place Ona would not have stayed a day, but for starvation; and, as it was, she was never sure that she could stay the next day.

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A large amount of information was available for analysis.

A boy’s last days with cervical cancer causes him to lose his memories.

Last Tuesday, I found a heartbeat. It was a single directory index, hosting a terminal interface from a startup that dissolved in 1999.

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“I don’t know why. But this is like—like walking round a house that looks square and complete and finding an unexpected long wing running out behind.”

A youth's entry to adulthood is threatened by the imminent arrival of an asteroid which will destroy life on earth.

“He consults friends—impalpable, intricate, inexhaustible friends.

"Where are we?" each demanded of the other, as they staggered out.

In striking contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all.

I left all who were dear to me, and went away; and believed that I had borne it, and it was past.

‘My dear Copperfield, a man who labours under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage.

He tried in vain—such was his state of mind—to remember the beginning of the Lord's Prayer.

"My word," said Mr. Direck in a good old Farmer Hayseed kind of voice.

"I think I've heard her father was a Russian merchant, and imported tallow and hemp. Mr. Osborne Hamley is extremely like her."

“Hey! that’s it! You stumped up your money for nothing, and we believe in those fellows, here!” remarked the black-haired individual, sarcastically.

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“If you don't want your face sp'iled, Charlie, why don't you keep your mouth shut?” said the person in gaiters.

“I feel—All this is the rightest of all conceivable things. I want to tell every one. I want to boast myself.”

Sadly, sternly, the old professor reveals to his brilliant pupil the greater path to glory.

A fearful cry followed the word. I paused a moment, and looking in, saw him supporting her insensible figure in his arms.

I could scarcely lay claim to the name: I was so disturbed by the conviction that the letter came from Agnes.

“WORK. Stop playing at life. Face it like a man.”

He started back from the motionless figure. "Dead!" he said suddenly, and turning, panic stricken, fled headlong through the wood.

For three weeks after his injury Jurgis never got up from bed. It was a very obstinate sprain; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued.

“Stay it out. I want you to see the fun. I remember—the other time.”

Once or twice Lewisham misquoted the testimonial—to no purpose. And May was halfway through, and South Kensington was silent. The future was grey.

“I believe you would,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, admiring her. “You're plucky enough—goodness knows.”

“Aunt Dove demands it. Like celebrating the virginity of Queen Elizabeth….”

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The SF-22 and her convoy were surrounded by these unearthly rays.

He never wrote anything for his public with his own hand.

This sentiment gave unbounded satisfaction—greater satisfaction, I think, than anything that had passed yet.

‘Why, bless my life and soul!’ said Mr. Omer, ‘how do you find yourself? Take a seat.—-Smoke not disagreeable, I hope?’

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The previous session—their friendship was now nearly a year old—it had never once dawned upon him that she could possibly be pretty.

One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that Jurgis became desirous of learning English.

Displacement is the core of the problem, and the most striking of all the dream performances.

“I know—I know I’m not. I know…. I’m a devil. A poor, lost, homeless devil.”

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Then the wedding with young Mr. Fox was held, and there was merry-making and dancing, and if they haven’t stopped, they are dancing still.

“By God!” said Ann Veronica for the first time in her life. “But I will! I will!”

The only way I can describe young Anson Hunter is to approach him as if he were a foreigner and cling stubbornly to my point of view.

"Of course," he said, turning to Direck, "Rendezvous is the life and soul of the country."

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Kael stood in the Garden of Hydroponics. He was alone.

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The Editor’s desire is to restore to the children as large a collection as possible of Grimm’s Fairy Tales unmutilated in their literary perfection.

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

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Not that I mean to say these were special marks of distinction, which only I received.

I STOOD on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Captain Carter and Dr. Frank, the ship surgeon, watching the arriving passengers.

When the master saw him he was delighted, and said to him: ‘You shall stay with me, and have a good time as long as you live.’

They decided to go to Switzerland at the session’s end. “We’ll clean up everything tidy,” said Capes....

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The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder.

No Greek theoria winding its way to the Eleusinian festivals was ever more orderly.

“See already the new gravity in people’s faces, the generosities, the pacification of a thousand stupid squabbles——”

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Five children touted as the salvation of humanity are kept in a facility and trained to face the world.

“I never dreamt,” he said in even tones.

“AS dead. It was one of the luckiest shots I ever fired. And I wasn't much over nine at the time, neither.”

Steerforth and I stayed for more than a fortnight in that part of the country.

My first parliament was the parliament of the Suffragettes.

They don't laugh at you.... At least—they laugh differently....

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“Nothing,” said Widgery, and aside in her ear: “You really ate scarcely anything, you know.”

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“We got to make a fight for it,” said my uncle. “We got to face the music!”

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My will is law beyond this king—beyond these palace soldiers—beyond any power you have ever known.

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Some observant element in his composition guessed, and guessed quite accurately, that she was nineteen....

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"Do you think I am a Man—like yourself? As the chequered man did."

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The firmament––black interstellar space with its blazing white, red and yellow stars––lay spread around us.

Another manifestation of the dream work which all incoherent dreams have in common is still more noticeable.

The interest of him, the absurdity of him, the story of him, is that.

No one was really sorry about this except poor Elzbieta, who was inconsolable.

My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than ever in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis required.

“Oh staunch old heart who toiled so long for me, I waste my years sailing along the sea—”

“Now we are boys so fine to see, Why should we longer cobblers be?”

"The strange thing," said the Angel, "is the readiness of you Human Beings—the zest, with which you inflict pain. Those boys pelting me this morning——"

Bell saw what he was looking for, out in the throng of traffic that filled the Avenida do Acre, in Rio.

“This has almost killed your father.... After Gwen!”

I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking.

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As to Lizabetha Prokofievna, she, as the reader knows, belonged to an aristocratic family.

“This,” it came to me, “is England. That is what I wanted to give in my book. This!”

At first Amory noticed only the wealth of sunshine creeping across the long, green swards, dancing on the leaded window-panes, and swimming around the tops.

“They were traders—and nothing more. Just as we are. And when they were rich they got splendid clothes and feasted and rested. Much as we do.”

There had been a heavy snow, and now a thaw had set in; fine sleety rain was falling, driven by a wind that pierced Jurgis to the bone.

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The children tried very hard, but they could not pull the beard out, it was caught too fast.

The assistant read a list of ‘ologies and ‘ographies. “Fifty resident,” said Mr. Blendershin concisely—“that’s your figure. Sixty, if you’re lucky.”

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"Dear me!" said Mrs Mendham, "How heedless of me! And the cripple's grave too. But really you've no idea how much this monument cost them."

It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.

“I will break my window, and grant thee whatever boon thou askest.”

“A synthetic God,” said Boon. “If it is to be called a God at all.”

She glanced over her shoulder and saw Hoopdriver. “Damn!” said the other man in brown, quite audibly, starting as he followed her glance.

He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted; he could not remain still—he would wander on, gaunt and haggard, gazing about him with restless eyes.

“Are you sure that he is dead?” he demanded. “Ai! ai!” she wailed. “Yes; we had the doctor.”

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“The old, old thing, you see! The weak protest of the living.”

A girl that Rahul loved never existed in the first place

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“Would you have me make a friend and a companion of a Mancini?” asked the countess, with raised colour.

This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women.

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"If you really loved me you'd want every one to know it."

To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness.

I was rumoured to be dreadfully “clever,” and there were doubts—not altogether without justification—of the sweetness of my temper.

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“Figgers is a bit big for the houses,” said the policeman, anxious to do impartial justice. “But that’s Art. I lay ‘e couldn’t do anything ... not arf so good.”

The Vicar examined his visitor critically—for the first time. "He will be difficult to explain," he said to himself softly.

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During the summer the packing houses were in full activity again, and Jurgis made more money.

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There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes.

Gripped by anxiety, Jackson settled into his seat. He did not want to fasten the seat belt yet. He thought he might want to go pee again. One never knew when the stewards would tell everyone that the restrooms were closed for take-off preparations. The rules inside these metal beasts seemed so arbitrary. Whether on the tarmac or not, once one was in the fuselage, one’s rights and choices seemed to evaporate.

It was easy to see that these doubts were having an effect upon the animals, so the cat went off offended.

"This business," said the Vicar, "this unfortunate business of the barbed wire—is really, you know, a most unfortunate business."

All the relief and benefit of his experience in London had vanished out of his life.

“It's my first ride, as a matter of fact. But that's no excuse for my ah! blundering—”

“I will be perfectly frank with you,” said the other man in brown.

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A team travels through time. Their leader seems unstable, but they follow him anyway. They step through the portal to face an unknown enemy. Is this the end?

The Bride asked what she meant, and she answered, ‘Let me speak with the Bridegroom in his chamber to-night.’

The Angel made an irresolute movement. "Your eyes are very beautiful," he said quietly, with a remote wonder in his voice.

“I hope,” said Lewisham, making a resolute plunge, “perhaps while you are staying at Whortley ...”

‘Now, you see,’ said the Fox, ‘what a braggart you are. You throw your hatchet so far that you can’t get it back again.’

“I’m hard up, too, my goo’ fren’,” he said. “I’ve got cruel parents, or I’d set you up. Whuzzamatter whizyer?”

—all the romance of our engagement put away upon a shelf, to rust—no one to please but one another—one another to please, for life.

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The young are the food of war....

“Or a play. There’s a deal of money in a play, George. What would you think of me writing a play eh?... There’s all sorts of things to be done.

A plan had occurred to me for passing the night, which I was going to carry into execution.

Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books.

Recognition of the importance of rotating memory devices in display applications is evident in the reports.

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Maya's Tuesday takes an unexpected turn when her tentacles turn her neighbor into soup.

“No good hiding our light under a Bushel,” he would remark.

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All the sordid suggestions of the place were gone—in the twilight it was a vision of power.

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