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“I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals.”
“I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag.”
“What does loa mean?He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. Its the name of an angel.Penelope tilted her head, thinking. Ive never heard of him.You wouldnt have.Was he a fallen angel?She was, ...”
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”
“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ough...”
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.”
“Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days--Carol's song--and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in...”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“I’m Temple Claybourne, an upright, warm-blooded hairy mammal, Caucasian, skidding into my fourth decade of existence, the progeny of meat-eating Anglo-Saxon tribal chieftains, left-handed, flat of ...”
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in...”
“The calf is capable of walking quite well now," Dazu said. "He never stumbles.""But I told you to carry him back here," the teacher said. "The first thing a soldier must learn is to obey orders."Ev...”
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.”
“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that ...”
“What does Éloa mean?”He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”“You wouldn’t have.”“Was he a fallen ang...”
