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They were paperbacks, the kind that were readily available from the hospital gift shop. Carl hadn't chosen his selections carefully. One dealt with the strategy of investing, one was a book on raising farm animals, and the third was a collection of bedtime stories for children. She had no use for any of them but didn't want to hurt Carl's feelings. Thank you very much, she told him. I'm sure I'll enjoy these.

But he'd made the mistake of listening, just a little, to the seductive whispers of that rotten, misleading bastard called Hope.

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.

There it sat under my skull with my mind gripped in its tentacles. Sometimes dormant. Sometimes awakening and squeezing. Again I would react

she takes me so seriously, much too seriously, and then thinks about her queer little sister for a long time afterwards, looks searchingly at me, at every word I say, and keeps on thinking: 'Is this just a joke or does she really mean it?

Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

the boys in line." Hildemara didn't receive a reward for

Simply because holiness is the product of grace, and God gives grace only to the humble.

Would not intentional restrictions on the progress of life-saving science, simply to allow ethics to "catch up," be themselves unethical?

Ve?ina nas ima svoje omiljeno, herojsko razdoblje života; ovo je bilo Diverovo.

Lorsqu'il ouvrait la bouche, sa voix de ténor rauque et bourrue accentuait encore son expression belliqueuse.

Every battle has a decisive point (place, time, event, or decision on the battlefield that led to victory), but our decisive point wasn't on the battlefield. We didn't know it, but it was at that point in time, on that cold, rainy, November night, that the battle at Debecka was won.

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.

you and your friend are welcome to my hospitality, unless of course you think your delicate sensibilities will be offended.

Why me?" There's a better question, of course: "Why not me?" Why should any of us be spared struggle, when struggle is a condition more universal than comfort

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Most writing is collective consciousness made manifest, tinged to some degree by the author's individuality. Great writing is a specific consciousness made manifest, illuminating the world in a way that we've never seen before and that yet makes sense. 222

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.

Sometimes I wonder about Piter, the Baron said. I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it. -Baron Vladimir

I guess I'm not in the mood for it today," Paul said. "Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.