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"She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue."
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"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."
"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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"Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology."
"I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don't want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful."
"Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?"
"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
"The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up."
"They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans."
"My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it."
"The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door."
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