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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."
"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money."
"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."
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