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A famous piece of advice from this school crosses the line from the grim to the infanticidal: “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—wholeheartedly—and delete it before sending your
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C.f. Delete The cleVeR bits
“But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.”
― A Year of Biblical Womanhood
― A Year of Biblical Womanhood
“The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.”
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The F-word
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