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“So has this plaster Lady [The Virgin Mary] a powerful effect on the deep black water of the human spirit. She may disappear and her name be lost, as the Magna Mater, as Isis, have disappeared. But something very like her will take her place, and the longings which created her will find somewhere in the world a similar alter on which to pour their force. No matter what her name is, Artemis, or Venus, or a girl behind a Woolworth counter vaguely remembered, she is as eternal as our species, and we will continue to manufacture her as long as we survive.”
― John Steinbeck, THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ

“The bells had been ringing when he first arrived at Martingale. They had sounded often as a background to his investigation, the mood music of murder.”
― P.D. James, Cover Her Face

“The Atlantic had never been specifically a British ocean; but it was even less a German one, and now was not the time for it to change its nationality.”
― Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea

“Instead, Parliament passed an Act which was, as usual, a legal redundancy, and superbly upholstered with "whereby," "notwithstanding," "heretofore" and other such words so beloved of anyone who ever used a heavy legal textbook to prop open a door on a windy day”
― Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Guillotine