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“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“With the use of the hydrogen bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the Good Samaritan. And yet Randy stopped...The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory. Randy knew he would have to play by the old rules. He could not shuck his code, or sneak out of his era.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“The weakest punches are thrown with the tongue.”
― Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club