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If my mother-in-law blows him up, he whistles. She flies in a passion, and breaks his pipe; he steps out, and gets another. Then she screams wery loud, and falls into 'sterics; and he smokes wery comfortably till she comes to agin. That's philosophy, Sir, ain't
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
Lyra knew that Pantalaimon’s impulse was to reach out and cuddle the little half-child, to lick him and gentle him and warm him as his own dæmon would have done; but the great taboo prevented that, of course.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
He’d said once to Serafina Pekkala that he didn’t care for flying, that it was only a job, but he hadn’t meant it. Soaring upwards, with a fair wind behind and a new world in front: what could be better in this life?
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
“No, there is no God.” “Alyoshka, is there a God?” “There is.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Bonhoeffer is telling us what we all know in our hearts, if we’ll admit it to ourselves: these old myths were the stories we were told in our childhood. Now that we have come of age, we should put them aside and take responsibility for ourselves like adults,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
