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I have thought the difference might be that my Mary knows she will live forever, that she will step from the living into another life as easily as she...more

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On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. "Look at a...more

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Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had...more

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A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderne...more

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It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of...more

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She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy s...more

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And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

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And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team ...more

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Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

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Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only l...more

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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then,...more

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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

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I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to th...more