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For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief—it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of ...more

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But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?" "Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went sco...more

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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quit...more

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Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.

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A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens...more

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It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.