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Dreamless, like an amoeba, he, too, slept.

When a theme is harped on too much you get parody. When we make fun of a stale theme we say we've japed it.

Could it be that I have bad breath, Tom? Well, Ed, if you're worried about that, try today's new Ubik, with powerful germicidal foaming action, guaranteed safe when taken as directed.

Bütün hayat birdir; 'kimse bir ada deÄŸildir,' Shakespeare'in eski zamanlarda söylediÄŸi gibi.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

A murderer was a worthy companion.

swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.

the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.

St. Augustine had said, "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel.

I'm with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn't care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So that's what we're doing, we're getting on.

Who was that?" said Will, trembling, facing the two angels. "That was Metatron," said Balthamos.

Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the centre of his life. He thought: it won't find it there. Hester's my centre.

You scribes and Pharisees, if you're listening – be damned to you. You take endless scruples over the tiniest matters of the law, while you let the great things like justice and mercy and faith go unnoticed and forgotten. You strain the gnats out of your wine, but you ignore the camel standing in it.

What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

If that was Tom Simms," said Audrey, "I'd say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise.

Beacause if they think the Dust is bad, it must be good.

You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.

it must have been the case that there had been an angel among the hostages, that he'd struck down the leader as punishment for shooting the farmer, and then vanished, probably flown back to heaven." "No doubt." "Or to Calvi's.

Seems to me," Lee said, feeling for the words. "Seems to me, the place you find cruelty is where you find it. And the place you give help is where you see it needed. Or is that wrong, Dr Grumman? I'm only an ignorant aëronaut.

And there it was: like a sheet of glass hanging unsupported in the air, but glass with no attention-catching reflections in it: just a square patch of difference.

there is an angel called Metatron.