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the shifts and struggles within the Christian communities that caused certain notions of the afterlife to emerge with unusual urgency at certain times, for reasons that were never exclusively theological.
“I haven’t the slightest feeling about colored people. Why, I’m just crazy about some of them. They’re just like children—just as easy-going, and always singing and laughing and everything. Aren’t they the happiest things you ever saw in your life? Honestly, it makes me laugh just to hear them.”
― Complete Stories
― Complete Stories
“Space is both friendly and cruel. A mixed message, if you will.”
― Backyard Starship
― Backyard Starship
“Why, he’s awfully nice. Just as nice as he can be. Nice manners, and everything. You know, so many colored people, you give them an inch, and they walk all over you. But he doesn’t try any of that. Well, he’s got more sense, I suppose. He’s really nice. Don’t you think so?”
― Complete Stories
― Complete Stories
“No one, perhaps, is ever again going to emulate Tolkien in sheer quantity of effort, in building up the maps and the languages and the histories and the mythologies of one invented world, as no one is ever again going to have his philological resources to draw on.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Dorothy Parker wrote strong prose for most of her life, and she wrote a lot of it, remaining relentlessly compassionate regarding, and interested in, the sufferings primarily of those who could not extricate themselves from the emotional tortures of unsuccessful personal relationships.”
― Complete Stories
― Complete Stories
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