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Forgotten mornings when he walked with his motherThrough the parablesOf sunlightAnd the legend of the green chapels.

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

Time kills me terribly. 'Time shall not murder you,' He said, 'Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?' I saw time murder me.

And the high-heaped fire spat, all ready for the chestnuts and the mulling pokers.

I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it

Nobody has the right to say what he really thinks of an author unless they admire his work.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

the ridiculous things you see on American films, from which good Lord deliver us!

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulsare unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

How could so many well-meaning professionals have been so wrong and been complicit in creating such a disaster? This book attempts to answer that question.

The Freudian paradigm is so intertwined with liberalism and humanism and America that to doubt the former is to implicitly denigrate the latter.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

A giant wields a rusty saw. He gloats and hums as he works, slicing through my forehead and into the mind behind it.

But maybe I could be the wacky, unpredictable girl; the kind who always fascinates more conservative men in the movies.

In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.

Taft gets hold of the wet baguette and hits Will with it.

I am being nice," says Bonnie. "A lot of vampires are extremely sexy. That's a documented fact.

Perla had been promised "a cheese plate of surpassing beauty" by someone who knew what was up with the catering.

Alguien escribió una vez que una novela debería suministrar una serie de pequeñas sorpresas. Yo recibo lo mismo pasando una hora contigo.