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And I was entirely held by my own words, as if my words had become a liquid and I immersed in them, like a drowning man in a rushing river.

Instead of casting politics as a semireligious debate about truth, it would be preferable to see the subject as a dispute among reasonable people who disagreed.

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

It doesn't matter. We could never date anyway. Doesn't the FBI have rules against partners dating? Even if I am just an unpaid consultant.' 'I'd certainly never want to date Gerard, so I never asked.

much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

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It was a story that still hurt in the telling, which perhaps made it a worthwhile gift, after all.

For one splinter of time their eyes met in something that was almost a salute, a parting salute between two who might have been friends.

Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts." - Helen, about the war

Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?

his cock's longer than he is tall," the woman retorted. The dwarf beside her snorted and lifted a mug to toast. "He's a dwarf," another pointed out. "That ain't that impressive.

said Chericola got a ball club that couldn't whip the Little Sisters of the Poor. I said if the entire town turned out for every game it couldn't support a hopscotch team. I said you're on some kind of religious bender and I'm stumbling around like a goddam zombie wondering what's going on.

Petrarch complained that, so sloppy were the scribes of his day, and so full of errors were the manuscripts they produced, "an author would not recognize his own work." 7

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

The word nepotism comes, in fact, from nipote, Italian for nephew.

A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.

Don't be silly," he said uncertainly. "Now, what's your problem? If you think you're broke, I'm broker, ask my broker.

He made a production out of answering her, marching around to her side of the car, carrying his belly in front of him like a gift.

his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.

The tires whined like starved cats on the fog-sprinkled black-top.

Perhaps you'd like a drink." "Not before lunch. I'm the new-type detective.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

The purpose of Biblical history is to trace the victory of Jesus Christ.