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Earth's nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom.

armorer-gunner Kenneth Dabbs was also from Texas;

Saints, even the female ones, are safe with the written word. It's the rest of us who've caused so much concern over so many years.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

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Ihr blödelt", sagte Tarzan, "und die Terroristen vernichten unseren Staat.

They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.

no one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.

Out of pity — ever and again out of pity! — and perhaps, too, to keep at bay his melancholy importunity, I had at one time and another bought three or four of these sordid, badly printed volumes and then casually left them lying about on my shelves.

Fundamental in Hölderlin's scheme is the idea that poesy is indispensable to the world; nay, more, that it is not merely a creation within the cosmos, but itself creates the cosmos.

In seinem Schlösschen, wo er ab 1920 mit seiner Frau und deren zwei Töchtern aus erster Ehe lebt, entstehen Novellen, Dramen und Erzählungen.

Her grammar in moments of emergency always impressed Kew.

I want to introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent woman in this book. I cannot introduce you to a heroine because I have never met one.

Bix looked at Alleyn with all the enthusiasm of a smart Labrador offered the chance of a long walk and a good many rabbits

He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.

But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.

On the whole, Cold Comfort was not without its promise of mystery and excitement.

Send clean socks. Love to all except Micah.

It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.

This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively straightforward, must involve, if at all possible, a twist or two, and must bring resolution.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self.