“I’m not asking Alexa a damned thing! I don’t pose questions to anyone or any thing that I can’t strangle.”
Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Stories.
“Everyone does his job, stays the line, contributes to the social order. Whilst you go traipsing about. That’s a parasite, Wilkins. Why pretend that you don’t know it?”
Leighton Johns, My Uncle Toby.
“My other sock is almost on,” thought Edward. And an exciting thought it was, too.
Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.
“It’s not that I am cold and aloof, and just don’t care about their opinions. No, it’s that I really don’t believe their opinions. I don’t believe that it all matters so much to them.”
Gwen Tunder, Vile Porridge.
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