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When done right, it’s possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.
“We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth.”
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
“As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist - making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible. What follows you can easily forecast!”
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
“Hence the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best. We can drag our patients along by continual tempting, because we design them only for the table, and the more their will is interfered with, the better. He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away his hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
“A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.”
― The Hunt for Red October
― The Hunt for Red October
“Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother's utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention.”
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
― The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
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