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Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.
— Mary Doria Russell
When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
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Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.
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The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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...she was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
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God will break your heart.
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He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.
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Bein' born is craps," he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. "How we live is poker.
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You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
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Hope - cruelest of the evils that escaped Pandora's box - smiled on him gently all that summer.
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Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.
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Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'
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Jesus Christ," Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.
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Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
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I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary." ~Renzo Leoni
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...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
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Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside his own self.
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Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
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Until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.
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Your sorrow is of no interest to me," Sandoz said softly. "If you want absolution, go to a priest.
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The sparrow still falls.
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[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.
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Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
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And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.
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Tradition was safety; change was danger.
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The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.
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If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it was the utter emptiness of a corpse.
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an insouciant flip of the wrist -
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The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.
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Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God. ... And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us!
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You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning.
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Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -
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Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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The past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence.
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I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.
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No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He
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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
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Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
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After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.
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Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
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I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.
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Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker. Mamma played a bad hand well.
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The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?
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No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
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Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way
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I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
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Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)
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It was politicians saying, Let's you and him fight!
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You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.
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To leave the apple unpicked - that was sin.
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The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning.
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Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)
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Wyatt, I'm from Chicago," Eddie told him. "Let me explain politics to you.
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Doc's idea of "clarifyin' a point of contention" came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
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The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
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Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
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My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
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His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
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By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.
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The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco.
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Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
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And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?
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In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
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He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
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And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
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