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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

If I could interview that horse, Walter mused, I'd know the boy a whole lot better.

did. They had class at the same time in the

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

This was not even a particularly big offense in the pantheon of book club crimes, where the worst sin one could commit was not to read the book in question--or, even worse, to lie about having read the book when, in fact, you'd simply seen the movie, a lie usually uncovered when you used the actor's name by accident. ("I love the part where Daniel Day-Lewis ...")

Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,

fascinating book on story structure Into the Woods

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

theology requires metaphors and concepts that come from our understanding of nature and therefore from science.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Seneca writes, "Nature requires from us some sorrow, while more than this is the result of vanity. But never will I demand of you that you should not grieve at all."1

I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

The makers of aspirin wish you had a headache right now,' says the graffiti.

Far and away the most important lesson to impart to the American mind and soul: regardless of our lifetime of education to the contrary, US foreign policy does not 'mean well.

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Fifteen apparitions have I seen;The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.

But what is Whiggery?A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mindThat never looked out of the eye of a saintOr out of drunkard's eye.

My wretched dragon is perplexed.