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Corvino, whose contribution is—like its author—sophisticated, civil, and well-informed.

sociology and went immediately to work for the Missoula County sheriff's

This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.

As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you must pay. I personally consider myself a radical, but I publish conservative material. That's quite a paradox.

And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a world that is uncreated: that is the work of no author. A world that imagination cannot thereafter alter, not in its deepest workings and its laws, but only envision in new ways; where our elder brothers and sisters, the things, suffer our childish logomantic games with them and wait for us to grow up, and know better; where we do grow up, and do know better.

With Graham Greene life is a precious, perpetual, snot-sodden whinge.

It's a great joke!" she said. "Many jokes! Are there as many houses inside?" "In a sense," he said. "Oh, show me!

Whatever differences in polity, all Puritans shared the same fundamental theological commitment to Reformed theology (Calvinism).

John himself said, "… from a child I was taught to love and reverence the Scripture, the oracles of God.

Both men looked cadaverous and sinister as the single dim light hanging from the ceiling cast dark shadows across their features.

Peace isn't a feeling to relate to. It's a higher quality of beingness to return to.

You always complain," Gene said. "Every hand. Which leads me to believe, you clever beast, that it's some kind of psychological stratagem.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

To write good history is the noblest work of man.

does a search for Paul bring Theoklia, women, and equality back steadily and inevitably into the light

When a metaphor gets big, it is called "tradition"; when it gets bigger, it is called "reality";

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,Is to hate traitors and the treason love.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.