Michael Kurland - The Unicorn Girl (1969)

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A curious mixture, you, I said, pulling her firmly toward me over the bowl of cement and commencing a lengthy kiss of agreement, exploration, adoration and lust.

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I don't like eating in the dark. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

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You're from Liverpool, of course, He was very proud of his ability to place different accents.
No, Sylvia told him. Boston.

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A lot of things seem to be happening, all at once, I told Chester.
Enemy action, he replied.
Huh?
That's what you told me once. An old Army motto you found when you were doing those war books. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. This is the third time.

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I am not in the habit of letting someone else decide what I can and cannot do.

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Well, what that means is that it doesn't happen very often. Now it's happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that, he ticked a finger, something's seriously out of whack in general, or, he ticked the next finger, someone's out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teeming up to get me, but now I'm more objective and I don't believe that. I think it, but I don't believe it.

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An amphibophile is the sort of girl who goes around kissing princes in the hope that one of them will turn into a frog.

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The trains take us anywhere we want on earth. They're very fast and dependable. If I remember from history we tried personal mechanical vehicles for a short time, but gave them up as a bad idea. They smell up the road, take up too much room, caused many accidents and just proved a general nuisance.

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How are you on the high wire?
Wire walking? It's simple. Any child of ten can do it—with about fourteen years practice.

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God is just, he said.
Just what? I asked.
Just watching.

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