"How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle."
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"Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference."
"I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage."
"Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together."
"God complaines not, but doth what is fitting."
"For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting."
"It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter."