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Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.
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Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact - than the Puritans really sought. Faith, he tells us, is not an exotic bloom to be laboriously maintained by the exclusion of most aspects of the day to day world, nor a useful delusion to be supported by sophistries and half-truths like a ch..
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faith
religion
god
clarification
father-christmas
john-milton
mosaic
pattern-recognition
puritans
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The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.
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Time," he said solemnly, "is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant."
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Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.
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Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.
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youth
nautical
pirate
seas
ship
ocean
pirates
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Love isn't in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.
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And you've never married.""I don't know any women well enough to hate 'em that much."
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You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.
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Work out your own damnation," he said breathlessly, "in fear and trembling."
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Art, like a lot of things, is a lost art.
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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.
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Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.
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The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
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Whats o'clock?"And to-morrow's doomsday.
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Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.
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It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.
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I'm really willing to try to believe you're not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?
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He thought about crossing his fingers, but clasped her hand instead.
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It's important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like--me.
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My wife was a psychiatrist," remarked Pete, "before she became a bruja."
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An angel, maybe, Cochran thought, but one with a harpoon rather than a harp.
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How, he wondered forlornly, and when, did I become indistinguishable from the bad guys?
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He wondered if she had actually read his mind or simply knew him well enough to guess his thoughts.
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All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale's whole life.
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Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?
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Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.
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Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.
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I'm not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.
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She chose to reject me!"That wasn't a choice, lad--that was an empty gun saying click."
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I'd offer you a drink," he said, "but all I have is the good stuff."
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The terrain is the body, the map is the anatomy chart.
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Maybe later," he told her. "Time yet for a hundred indecisions."
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I think we're dead.""Maybe." Vickery shook his head. "Would that make a difference?"
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Guesses based on guesses are of no value.
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We should all be getting insanity danger pay.
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