Assyria Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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• Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
• One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
• Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny…
• The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
• Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the…
• I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
• That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
• It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
• The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
• Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and…
• To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…
• Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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