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"What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!"
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes."
"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."
"Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace."
"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."
"I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will."
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