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If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
The telling of stories creates the real world.

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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P.J. O'Rourke
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. — John Cheever
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets… — Walter Bagehot
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer,… — William Hurt
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes… — Nick Harkaway

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