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Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.

The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern,

remarked to Mom how all the books we were reading then shared not just length but a certain theme: fate and the effects of the choices people make. "I think most good books share that theme," Mom said.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,

We'd both already read several novels by Tóibín: The Master and The Story of Night and The Blackwater Lightship.

a book by David K. Reynolds, who had, in the early 1980s, come up with a system he called Constructive Living, a Western combination of two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

fascinating book on story structure Into the Woods

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

he often did at a moment of great crisis, Arnold threw a party for the congressmen in the mansion

Being as Communion is the final book in a trilogy. The two earlier books were The Design Inference and No Free Lunch.

theology requires metaphors and concepts that come from our understanding of nature and therefore from science.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

Belief in rule by an elite is no better than bigotry when ability is not the sole basis for admission to the circle of the elect.

Among other prominent errors in the texts were assertions that Robert Francis Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., were assassinated during the Republican presidency of Richard Nixon rather than the Democratic regime of his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, and that George Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in the election of 1989 rather than 1988—a calendar howler that ought to have jumped out at any author, editor,

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

Faith is a resting of the heart on God; as on the author of life and eternal salvation: that is to say, that by him we may be freed from all evil, and obtain all good, Isa. 10. 20.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being.

In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

The makers of aspirin wish you had a headache right now,' says the graffiti.