...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

How many roads must a man walk down?

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

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Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.