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Be afraid of what rules them. Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.

of their previous intimacy, she put a hand over his when he slipped into the

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Cold shoulders are a predictable reaction, and predictability is tedious.

There be none of Beauty's daughters/ With a magic like thee/ And like music on the waters/ Is thy sweet voice to me.

that I've been requisitioned a coffeemaker." Eve

Many Halloweens ago, he was just a tiny red puppy. I wanted to take Clifford out trick-or-treating. But the mask and hat didn't fit. He was not a happy clown.

The debased coinage of his reign bore his initials, ICR: Iohannes Casimirus Rex. These were taken to stand for Initium Calamitatum Reipublicae, the Beginning of the Republic's Catastrophes.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God—the Cosmological Argument.

not that he is totally deprived of all creaturely good metaphysically.

Yes, God is the author of everything, including evil, in the sense that He permits it, but not in the sense that He produces it. Evil happens in His permissive will, but He does not promote evil in His perfect will.

natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.

God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.

The news consists of exposing the first Noble Truth ('There is suffering'), but makes little reference to the other three. Wisdom concerns itself with all Four Noble Truths equally. It

I flopped back onto my pillows. I wanted to begin loathing the new day in comfort.

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.

It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.

The concept of "selling out"—and the degree to which that notion altered the meaning and perception of almost everything—is the single most nineties aspect of the nineties.

The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it's like Pet Sounds.

A book become popular because of its text, but it's the subtext that makes it live forever. For the true obsessive, whatever an author doesn't explicitly explain ends up becoming everything that matters most (and since it's inevitably the obsessives who keep art alive, they make the rules).

But of course, this limitation was not something people worried about, because caring that much about any TV show was not a normal thing to do.