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Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.


Fred F. Fielding

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HELEN FIELDING That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not...
HELEN FIELDING I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with g...
HELEN FIELDING ...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...
HENRY FIELDING The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik...
JOY FIELDING I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
JOY FIELDING I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.
JOY FIELDING There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
JOY FIELDING Roxster, my photo is of an egg.
HELEN FIELDING [...] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked...
HENRY FIELDING Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
NOEL FIELDING 'It's not you, it's me.'

'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said whe...
KIM FIELDING One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as t...
O. FIELDING CLARKE Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria...
O. FIELDING CLARKE Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guidi...
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We sa...
FRED HAMPTON I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and ...
FRED SAVAGE