“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
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[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
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“It was to a moribund horse, and Mr. Sidlow, describing the treatment to date, announced that he had been pushing raw onions up the horse’s rectum; he couldn’t understand why it was so uneasy on its legs. Siegfried had pointed out that if he were to insert a raw onion in Mr. Sidlow’s rectum, he, Mr. Sidlow, would undoubtedly be uneasy on his legs.”
― All Creatures Great and Small
― All Creatures Great and Small
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
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