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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

I looked to my left and saw a gorgonzola-green automobile in the driveway.

Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.

Her recovery was sometimes referred to as "a miracle," more miraculous than mine, but I don't believe in miracles, just the force of compassion, which under certain circumstances can bring the dead to life.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

You're surprised at all the blood. He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt. He's surprised, too.

Say something cheesy now and that was it, you were the class suck-up, say something clever and you were the smart-ass, say something stupid and you were forever stupid.

Carlos Marcello and the war orphans did cross my mind during the drive, and I sat the whole way facing the driver. He was a little guy, and if he took his hand off the steering wheel I was going to take his head off for him.

Fear and wonder rendered him powerless. An occurrence like this, in a place assigned to devotion, was adapted to intimidate the stoutest heart.

Frightened for My Life by Geoff Cugan, it will explain

The mention of the word dispensationalism usually evokes an immediate reaction.

A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the outworking of God's purpose. If

Where did Satan get the title of being god of the world? He got it from Adam. Satan is god of the world system, not god over the believer.

El tiempo es el mejor autor: siempre encuentra un final perfecto.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

life is a bad reason for including a character in a story.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

NON His greatest service to the UK on their application to join the EEC.

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on Boxin' Day.