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The monologue is her form of revenge. FLAUBERT

which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.

But I know my only defense is to answer, "I think it because it is true," thereby eliminating my subjectivity;

Your little face was so sweet, yesterday, when you said 'Oh you looked at me, you looked at me.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul.

Love for our neighbor, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

A society like the Church, which claims to be divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains than on account of the evil which sullies it.

If sin's reign over us is ended, then we must not—indeed cannot—go on living as though we were still its subjects. It now becomes irrational to use the body as if it were still the body in which sin reigned. Since grace now reigns; sin shall not be our master!

These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve

there are no new heresies, it seems, only old ones masquerading as new.

And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote.

If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The Wonderlust--probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.

Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly

For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson.

Don't be scared of upsetting folks 'coz most of 'em are topsy-turvy anyway, and you'll only be putting 'em back on their feet.