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What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our

the people of Maine have a punishing streak of self-hatred that makes Bostonians seem like lighthearted imps.

It is the very horror of the world that obliges us to learn to hope.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, Richard told me. And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.

Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction," Juan Diego had said.

As Em would one day act out for me, pantomimists are always misquoted.

The snowshoer had written about Reagan—just one sentence, after seeing her friends who were dying of AIDS. "If or when there's another plague, I hope America has a better plague president than Ronald Reagan," the little English teacher wrote.

But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You can choose your characters. But comedy is not a choice; it just comes out that way.

It was as if all the books in her room had been feeding on her, had consumed – not nourished – her.

A what?" said Egg. No doubt he thought that an inferiority complex was a weapon; sometimes, I guess, it is.

Good night you Kings of New England. You Princes of Maine. Who knows what book this quote comes from?

Well, that boy's voice," my grandmother told me, "that boy's voice could bring those mice back to life!" And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life—with a vengeance.

Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They

But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief—real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.

Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched or as in need of our assistance as the born! Please take pity on the born!

In a novel, your foremost objective isn't to offend no one," the

I later found a bookstore on the Calle de Gravina—Libros, I believe it was called. (I'm not kidding, a bookstore called "Books.")

It's bullshit that those two had no known illnesses—they had sexual intolerance up the wazoo!" Nora was raving. "They had incurable hatred of sexual differences!" Nora shouted.

He's from Finland," Alice explained. "That means your father has gone to Helsinki, Jack.