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"I listened to this audiobook read by the author and felt grossed out. Not because I’m squeamish about blood or bodily functions but because the author was so crass about it." — Feb 24, 2026 11:19AM
"I listened to this audiobook read by the author and felt grossed out. Not because I’m squeamish about blood or bodily functions but because the author was so crass about it." — Feb 24, 2026 11:19AM
It also occurred to me that wishing away half your life in anticipation of retirement (albeit an awesome one) was verging on the medieval. I wasn’t a serf, tilling the land until I dropped from exhaustion. I was working in 21st century
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“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist”
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor”
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home.... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep.”
― The Blue Sword
― The Blue Sword
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