"The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture."

-- Roland Barthes

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“American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.”
“Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.”
“We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.”
“Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.143
“I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.”
“And did you have to hack his arms off?â€ â€œYes, I did. He wouldnâ€™t go through the door.â€ â€œYou say it like youâ€™re proud of it." I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.144, Penguin
“I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.”
“This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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