Quotes About Black arts
There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients—like indispensable people parts—and I wasn't going to go there.
~ Kim Harrison
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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
~ Jeff Greenfield
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application of the name of Babylon to America as Babylon's Daughter is appropriate. Nimrod was the founder of Babylon and of the black arts. "Nimrod had his people build a number of ziggurats (temple-towers) for religious purposes. These were claimed to be staircases from earth to heaven, and were used for satanic worship and occultic initiation. The
~ John Price
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart were hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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But what call has he to be walking around in a charmed suit? It is a dazzling attraction charm, directed at ladies—very well done, I admit, and barely detectable even to my trained eye, since it appears to have been darned into the seams—and one which will render him almost irresistible to ladies. This represents a downward trend into black arts which must surely cause you some motherly concern, Mrs. Pendragon.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
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