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Is it sinless? It is not worth while tocontend for a term It is "salvation from sin.

A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. A bullet to the back of the head demonstrates good judgement.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!

still he found himself more and more attached to the almost fairy form before him.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

No, sir," Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

He continued, "I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I'm grateful that you volunteered to give it.

he said no more and hoped that his silence was less compromising than were his explanations.

writes within it, is erudite, stately, illuminating. The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying

Nobody is going to be muddle-headed enough to confuse ignorance with innocence now - it's too important. Nor is ignorance going to be cute or funny anymore. It is going to be dangerous, very dangerous.

In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy

Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that." "Exactly," she agreed.

Triffids were at large...I began to loathe them now from more than their carrion-eating habits - they, more than anything else, seemed able to profit and flourish on our disaster...

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.

Yes, Lance?" "I would like permission to kiss you." I walked up close to him. I looked into those big blue eyes. "Permission granted!

maybe Morgana doesn't care about the costs. And she does claim, and I think she truly believes this, that the world would be better under her rule. But maybe I'm wrong.

when justice is against the law, only outlaws can effect justice.

As Proust put it, the only paradises are those we have lost.

René Girard proposes that rituals of sacrifice are a necessary counter to endemic aggression and violence in society.

Success is always less awkward. It does not make claims upon pity or tact: congratulations are easier to give than condolences.

Perhaps as a result of years with his mother, he was very prone to take things as a reproach.

She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.

unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't , if you couldn't make yourself.

Suicide," Balliol said softly. "Another wretched man." "Another wretched girl," I corrected.