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Buckley was often a more articulate version of the same deep ugliness and bigotry that is the hallmark of Trumpism.

sports. "Gita

this here on his visit yesterday.

Did you interrogate him?" "I prefer to give a man some whiskey, then let him debrief himself.

Islesboro, in a town called Dark Harbor.

They're all staying at the Casa Marina, the old hotel built by Henry Flagler, the railroad guy who built the Breakers in Palm Beach

There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.

One of Henry's many endearing qualities is his interest in matters that are of interest to me.

Good news for me, although even in Texas I don't think impersonating a maid would be classified as a crime.

Why should we contain God any longer in our poor and narrow conceptions, which are so often no more than grandiose reflections of ourselves? Let us set him free.

He will use the word love, and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything.

Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.

A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside a woman's there are only longings.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

You could say I'd never had a true religious moment… But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say, Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open.

The birth of a daughter is a loss. Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good.

long aprons with starch. Off in the drawing room, it sounded like bees buzzing. Missus showed

Marija Gimbutas, who'd studied and written about the Goddess-worshiping, earth-centered cultures of prehistory,1 as well as other books I'd read

It can only germinate naturally out of my experience . . . or not.

The greatest sorrow, said Dante, was to recall in misery the time when we were happy. The sadness of a lost happy time.

However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, excessively bad. He goes further in this criticism: It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, victor of El Alamein and commander of land forces on D-Day, wrote extensively on The Art of War in his monumental A History of Warfare.

What's the difference between ignorance & arrogance? I don't know & I don't care.

Spinners are known for their athletics, rocketing out of the water in aerial leaps whenever the urge strikes, but these dolphins were relaxed.