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Typical of Sylvia to bring a poinsettia. As though she knew. The congenitally heavy-handed are capable even of unwitting brutalities.

It is interesting to note that I had to demand Gordon's extinction, not that I should be made a faster runner. And

Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.

The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth.

In the period of my life that Fred and I had this conversation I was writing a thesis at Melbourne University as part of a masters in creative writing, entitled Melancholy Ever After, about the effect of melancholy on narrative structure in fairy tales.

Even Believers can yield to the wrong spirits. Peter once rebuked Jesus, telling Him that He would not suffer.

When a writer tells you his novel has received mixed reviews, it means that after his book was trashed and his heart broken in every newspaper and magazine in America, the weekend critic at the Pekin Daily Times said it was a heart-pounding race to the finish.

The last thing i wanted was to sit next to a stinky pond and fry my brain cells.

George Washington's Sacred Fire intends to convince you that when all the available evidence is considered, the only viable conclusion is that George Washington was a Christian and not a Deist.

Although Boller entirely ignores them, there are numerous Gospel phrases in Washington's writings from the teachings of Jesus, the one whom Washington publicly called "the Divine Author of our Blessed Religion.

When the city was described as pagan, it was partly because no one living among such urban suffering could have much faith in a god who allowed cities such as London to flourish.

He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that

name for Manchester was Mamucio, after the

Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.

a melodious melancholy manner of mirth.

Peter Ackroyd

Only after the arrival of the Normans in England was there any formal separation between Church and State.

The clouds was light but queerly yellow on their edges as they moved across the ageless constellations.

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

most notably the UNSC Spirit of Fire in 2531, a story everyone in the UNSC damn well knew.

Nineteen thirty-three was a global event because it was immediately recognized as having worldwide political implications;

According to the first view, the original and fundamental function of the nervous system is to link perception with action.

a ragged crocodile of small black children jogging back from school.

Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.