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I would take an oath that I smelled Agilus's blood on the rain-washed air before his head banged into the basket.

All these would be rationalizations—the thing itself was glorious.

It was a long sentence for a monkey.

metonymy into dinner-party chat back at London beach. I

You have demons? Yes. That answer didn't surprise me, although how these demons connected with the movie was anybody's guess. Volkswagen demons, he said. You have Volkswagen demons? Yes. There. I said it. Happy now?

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

God, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.

All around them, the people worshipped, on their knees. Worshipped what was good, able to worship what was good by deliberately using it to cover up the bad.

the harm that's in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.

And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep:

There in the sun; and Chanticleer so free Sang merrier than a mermaid in the sea (For Physiologus says certainly That they do sing, both well and merrily).

and, 'he who despises all, displeases all,' as the Book says.

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.

He had more tow on his distaff Than Gerveis knew.

Nor have you well taken heed of the words of Ovid, who says, 'Under the honeyed enticements of the flesh is hidden the venom that slays the soul.

Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got

Churchill himself would later, if privately, say that returning to gold was the worst mistake of his life, a high standard indeed.

That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.

from the chalice of this realm of spirits foams forth Him his own infinitude.

My inference will be that you mean nothing at all. That you employ words to no manner or purpose without any design or signification whatsoever. And I leave it to you to consider how mere jargon should be treated.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.