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Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs.

Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off. -You read it? -No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.

For no other reason than that he was a devotee of Faulkner, he sent it to Random House first.

She had grown stingy with words, whole days spent in sullen silence, as if her supply of words was being exhausted and she must parcel them out one by one.

Together they knitted whole the fabric of night where violence had rent it. Everything was always changing and everything was always the same.

To do what is forbidden always has its charms, because we have an indistinct apprehension of something arbitrary and tyrannical in the prohibition.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All

there are yet mixed in our institutions mediaeval theories of protection, regulation, and authority, and

The news which the gospel hath in its mouth to tell us poor sinners is good. It speaks promises, and they are significations of some good intended by God for poor sinners.

God will not only be admired by his saints in glory for his love in their salvation, but for his wisdom in the way to it. The

Satan's power is ministerial, appointed by God for the service and benefit of the saints. It

he hath no cause to complain for being cast out of man's society that gains Christ's presence by the same.

It is not the nature of grace, but the salt of covenant, keeps and preserves the purity of it. In

They gave us the rules of the game and the durable conviction that the physical world is comprehensible.

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If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should satisfy it even if he wrote with his prick while asleep. (Puritans will object to the language in that sentence, and feminists to the organ, and neither will admire or even notice how it was phrased.)

The purpose of an imaginative narrative isn't to confirm what we think we already know about reality; rather, it offers "a record of the choices, inadvertent or deliberate, the author has made from all the possibilities of language." A fictional cat may reflect qualities of a real cat, but it is better appreciated as a product of the author's agile mind.

looked like a small sea of quicksilver was flowing

I did not find, and don't believe today, that Holmes met accepted psychiatric criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or its even more serious cousin, schizoaffective disorder, at the time of the shootings.